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U.S. Air Force Capt. Sheila Carlson talks on the radio in the cockpit of a C-130J Hercules aircraft at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, on May 1, 2008. Carlson is a pilot assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron and deployed from the 115th Airlift Squadron, Channel Island Air National Guard Station, California Air National Guard, Port Hueneme, Calif.

Capt. Sheila Carlson talks on the radio.

U.S. Air Force Capt. Sheila Carlson talks on the radio in the cockpit of a C-130J Hercules aircraft at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, on May 1, 2008. Carlson is a pilot assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron and deployed from the 115th Airlift Squadron, Channel Island Air National Guard Station, California Air National Guard, Port Hueneme, Calif.

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