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The slow shutter speed required for this night photograph blurs the air and ground crew members as they prepare to launch an F-16 Fight Falcon at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., on March 10, 2005. Aircrews, maintenance and support personnel such as these from the 132nd Fighter Wing, Des Moines, Iowa, are deployed to Nellis to participate in Exercise Red Flag, an exercise designed to test war-fighting skills in real-time combat situations.

The slow shutter speed required for this night photograph blurs the air and ground crew members as they prepare to launch an F-16 Fight Falcon.

The slow shutter speed required for this night photograph blurs the air and ground crew members as they prepare to launch an F-16 Fight Falcon at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., on March 10, 2005. Aircrews, maintenance and support personnel such as these from the 132nd Fighter Wing, Des Moines, Iowa, are deployed to Nellis to participate in Exercise Red Flag, an exercise designed to test war-fighting skills in real-time combat situations.

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