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U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam Brothers smoothes out a freshly poured concrete pad to add more parking spaces for aircraft on Balad Air Base, Iraq, May 13, 2008. Brothers is a 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron heavy equipment operator deployed from Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.

PARKING PADS

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam Brothers smoothes out a freshly poured concrete pad to add more parking spaces for aircraft on Balad Air Base, Iraq, May 13, 2008. Brothers is a 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron heavy equipment operator deployed from Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.

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