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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Landon, left, and U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Tyler conduct preflight checks on an MQ-9 Reaper equipped with Gorgon Stare before a sortie on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Dec. 5, 2015. Landon is an aircraft specialist and Tyler is a crew chief assigned to the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron. Gorgon Stare provides continuous broad-area motion imagery to find and fix targets. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys

Reaper Checked

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Landon, left, and U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Tyler conduct preflight checks on an MQ-9 Reaper equipped with Gorgon Stare before a sortie on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Dec. 5, 2015. Landon is an aircraft specialist and Tyler is a crew chief assigned to the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron. Gorgon Stare provides continuous broad-area motion imagery to find and fix targets. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys

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