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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