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ROYAL AIR FORCE LAKENHEATH, England -- An F-15E Strike Eagle waits at the end of the runway here before taking off for a deployment supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM -- A KC-10A Extender refuels an F-15E Strike Eagle on a combat patrol over Iraq. The aircraft are part of the 380th Air Expe***ionary Wing at a forward-deployed location. The KC-10As are from the 305th Air Mobility Wing at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., and the F-15Es are from the 48th Fighter Wing at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England.

ROYAL AIR FORCE LAKENHEATH, England -- A 494th Fighter Squadron F-15E Strike Eagle takes to the skies en route to a deployment supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM -- Air Force maintainers prepare to launch an F-15C Eagle for a strike misison from a forward deployed Operation Iraqi Freedom location. The maintenance technicians are assigned to the 363rd Expe***ionary Maintenance Squadron. Coalition aircraft flew more than 1,500 sorties March 26 supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- A crew chief from the 335th Expe***ionary Fighter Squadron prepares an F-15E Strike Eagle for a mission at a forward-deployed location on March 21, 2003. The Strike Eagles from Seymour Johnson A.F.B., are deployed in support of current operations in the Middle East.

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- A row of F-15s sits on the ramp here. The F-15 Eagle is an all-weather, extremely maneuverable, tactical fighter designed to gain and maintain air superiority in aerial combat. The single-seat F-15C and two-seat F-15D models entered the Air Force inventory beginning in 1979.

A three-ship formation of Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcons flies over Kunsan City, South Korea. The F-16s are from New Mexico, Colorado and Montana.

An F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 79th Fighter Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., engages the aircraft barrier Aug. 25 during a barrier certification test. An F-16 from Shaw AFB jettisoned two external fuel tanks during a mechanical malfunction on takeoff at about 1:30 p.m. Sept. 21 on a homeland defense mission.

Three F-16 Fighting Falcons taxi for takeoff before the last sortie flown at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania, during Exercise Viper Lance 2006. The exercise, which ran from Aug. 8 to 24, was the first time F-16 crews trained in Romania.

Senior Airman Brent Bott marshals an F-16 Fighting Falcon for a mission at Red Flag 06-02 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., on Aug. 8. Airman Bott is a crew chief with the Iowa Air National Guard''s 132nd Fighter Wing in Des Moines.