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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. Air Force Airman Eric Rickards uses a high volume, low pressure paint gun to add shadows to the tail lettering on an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, on April 12, 2007. Rickards is attached to the 354th Maintenance Squadron at Eielson.

U.S. Air Force Airman Eric Rickards uses a paint gun to add shadows to the tail lettering on an F-16.

U.S. Air Force Airman Eric Rickards uses a high volume, low pressure paint gun to add shadows to the tail lettering on an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, on April 12, 2007. Rickards is attached to the 354th Maintenance Squadron at Eielson.

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