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Capt. Patrick Applegate of the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron removes ground safety pins on a MAU-12 prior to a B-52 Stratofortress live drop mission for exercise Tropic Fury over the Farallon de Medinilla Target Range on Jan. 29, 2009. The B-52 will also drop live M-117 ordnance during the exercise. Tropic Fury was developed to train aircrew on the use of conventional air launched crew missiles and joint air-to-surface standoff missile conventional weapon systems. The B-52 is deployed from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron. Training missions such as this one ensures that maintenance and aircrews both perform real world tactics and defensive measures by loading and dropping live weapons on target.

Capt. Patrick Applegate removes ground safety pins on a MAU-12.

Capt. Patrick Applegate of the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron removes ground safety pins on a MAU-12 prior to a B-52 Stratofortress live drop mission for exercise Tropic Fury over the Farallon de Medinilla Target Range on Jan. 29, 2009. The B-52 will also drop live M-117 ordnance during the exercise. Tropic Fury was developed to train aircrew on the use of conventional air launched crew missiles and joint air-to-surface standoff missile conventional weapon systems. The B-52 is deployed from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron. Training missions such as this one ensures that maintenance and aircrews both perform real world tactics and defensive measures by loading and dropping live weapons on target.

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