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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Robert Milburn, an aerospace ground equipment apprentice with the 28th Maintenance Squadron, uses a bristle brush to clean electrodes from a fuel-burning assembly at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., on March 27, 2009. The fuel-burning assembly is used to ignite the heat exchanger of new-generation heaters. Maintenance personnel use the heaters to stay warm on the flight line.

Airman 1st Class Robert Milburn uses a bristle brush to clean electrodes.

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Robert Milburn, an aerospace ground equipment apprentice with the 28th Maintenance Squadron, uses a bristle brush to clean electrodes from a fuel-burning assembly at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., on March 27, 2009. The fuel-burning assembly is used to ignite the heat exchanger of new-generation heaters. Maintenance personnel use the heaters to stay warm on the flight line.

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