Staff Sgt. Charles Howard gives his son a piggyback ride upon returning home to Boise. Staff Sgt. Charles Howard gives his son a piggyback ride upon returning home to Boise, Idaho, from a deployment to Trapani Air Base, Sicily, on June 30, 1999. Howard and other members of the 124th Wing were part of an all Air Guard A-10 Thunderbolt II squadron with members from Idaho, Michigan, and Massachusetts. The squadron was deployed to Sicily for NATO Operation Allied Force. Operation Allied Force was the air operation against targets in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. SHARE: Download: Full Size (0.03 MB) Credit: VIRIN: 397689-A-GPO58-609.jpg Photo Gallery