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Air Force Staff Sgts. Michael Jackson (left) and Anthony Bagen align a 500-pound GBU-54 Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition before connecting it to an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Aug. 14, 2008. F-16 pilots with the 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron used the new weapon for the first time in combat Aug. 12 against a moving enemy vehicle in Diyala province to support a combined Iraqi army and U.S. Marine Corps operation. Bagen and Jackson are deployed from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson

Air Force Staff Sgts. Michael Jackson (left) and Anthony Bagen align a 500-pound GBU-54 Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition before connecting it to an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Aug. 14, 2008. F-16 pilots with the 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron used the new weapon for the first time in combat Aug. 12 against a moving enemy vehicle in Diyala province to support a combined Iraqi army and U.S. Marine Corps operation. Bagen and Jackson are deployed from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson

Air Force Staff Sgts. Michael Jackson (left) and Anthony Bagen align a 500-pound GBU-54 Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition before connecting it to an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Aug. 14, 2008. F-16 pilots with the 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron used the new weapon for the first time in combat Aug. 12 against a moving enemy vehicle in Diyala province to support a combined Iraqi army and U.S. Marine Corps operation. Bagen and Jackson are deployed from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson

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