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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)


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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)