$BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airmen Derand Javier and Chris Moore, 64th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons specialists, test the head spacing of a .50-caliber machine gun on an HH-60G Pave Hawk. Both Airmen are deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo\ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)$

Maintaining triggers

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airmen Derand Javier and Chris Moore, 64th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons specialists, test the head spacing of a .50-caliber machine gun on an HH-60G Pave Hawk. Both Airmen are deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo\ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)

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$BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airman Chris Moore, 64th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons specialist, safety wires a piece of a minigun here, March 24. A minigun is an aircraft machine gun consisting of a rotating cluster of six barrels using 7.62mm ammunition and is capable of variable rates of fire. The component feeds and de-links the rounds as they are fired from an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter. Airman Moore is deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo\ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)$

Maintaining triggers

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airman Chris Moore, 64th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons specialist, safety wires a piece of a minigun here, March 24. A minigun is an aircraft machine gun consisting of a rotating cluster of six barrels using 7.62mm ammunition and is capable of variable rates of fire. The component feeds and de-links the rounds as they are fired from an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter. Airman Moore is deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo\ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)

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$BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airmen Derand Javier and Chris Moore, 64th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons specialists, safety wire components of a minigun here, March 24. A minigun is an aircraft machine gun consisting of a rotating cluster of six barrels using 7.62mm ammunition and is capable of variable rates of fire. The piece is used to feed and de-link the rounds as they move through the gun on an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter. Both Airmen are deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo\ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)$

Maintaining triggers

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airmen Derand Javier and Chris Moore, 64th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons specialists, safety wire components of a minigun here, March 24. A minigun is an aircraft machine gun consisting of a rotating cluster of six barrels using 7.62mm ammunition and is capable of variable rates of fire. The piece is used to feed and de-link the rounds as they move through the gun on an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter. Both Airmen are deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo\ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)

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$BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airmen Derand Javier and Chris Moore, 64th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons specialists, safety wire components of a minigun here, March 24. A minigun is an aircraft machine gun consisting of a rotating cluster of six barrels using 7.62mm ammunition and is capable of variable rates of fire. The piece is used to feed and de-link the rounds as they move through the gun on an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter. Both Airmen are deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo\ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)$

Maintaining triggers

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airmen Derand Javier and Chris Moore, 64th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons specialists, safety wire components of a minigun here, March 24. A minigun is an aircraft machine gun consisting of a rotating cluster of six barrels using 7.62mm ammunition and is capable of variable rates of fire. The piece is used to feed and de-link the rounds as they move through the gun on an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter. Both Airmen are deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo\ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)

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$BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airman Derand Javier, 64th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons specialist, safety wires a component that feeds and de-links the rounds as they move through a minigun of an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter here, March 26. A minigun is an aircraft machine gun consisting of a rotating cluster of six barrels using 7.62mm ammunition and capable of variable rates of fire. Airman Javier is deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo\ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)$

Maintaining triggers

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airman Derand Javier, 64th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons specialist, safety wires a component that feeds and de-links the rounds as they move through a minigun of an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter here, March 26. A minigun is an aircraft machine gun consisting of a rotating cluster of six barrels using 7.62mm ammunition and capable of variable rates of fire. Airman Javier is deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo\ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)

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$BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airmen Derand Javier and Chris Moore, 64th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons specialists, test the head spacing of a .50-caliber machine gun on an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter. Head spacing is the timing at which the rounds flow through the machine gun. Both Airmen are deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo\ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)$

Maintaining triggers

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airmen Derand Javier and Chris Moore, 64th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons specialists, test the head spacing of a .50-caliber machine gun on an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter. Head spacing is the timing at which the rounds flow through the machine gun. Both Airmen are deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo\ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)

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Deployed Airmen maintain the thunder

Published March 28, 2008

Maintaining triggers

Maintaining triggers

Maintaining triggers

Maintaining triggers

Maintaining triggers

Maintaining triggers