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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Luke Oaks provides security with an M 240B machine- gun during a convoy mission from Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, to Mosul, Iraq, on Sept. 16, 2006. Oaks is assigned to the 557th Expeditionary Red Horse Squadron's Convoy Team.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Luke Oaks provides security.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Luke Oaks provides security with an M 240B machine- gun during a convoy mission from Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, to Mosul, Iraq, on Sept. 16, 2006. Oaks is assigned to the 557th Expeditionary Red Horse Squadron's Convoy Team.

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