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U.S. Navy EA-6B Prowler maintenance personnel talk over operations at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, prior to a local area mission during exercise Cope North 09-1 on Feb. 3, 2009. Navy EA-6B Prowlers from Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 136, Carrier Air Wing Five Atsugi, Japan, along with Japan Air Self Defense Force F-2s from the 6th Squadron, Tsuiki Air Base and E-2Cs from the 601st Squadron, Misawa Air Base will join forward deployed U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 18th Aggressor Squadron, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, B-52 Stratofortress aircraft currently deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, from the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron will participate in this year's Cope North exercise Feb. 2 to13. Cope North 09-1 is the first iteration of a regularly scheduled joint and bilateral exercise and is part of the on-going series of exercises designed to enhance air operations in defense of Japan.

U.S. Navy EA-6B Prowler maintenance personnel talk over operations.

U.S. Navy EA-6B Prowler maintenance personnel talk over operations at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, prior to a local area mission during exercise Cope North 09-1 on Feb. 3, 2009. Navy EA-6B Prowlers from Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 136, Carrier Air Wing Five Atsugi, Japan, along with Japan Air Self Defense Force F-2s from the 6th Squadron, Tsuiki Air Base and E-2Cs from the 601st Squadron, Misawa Air Base will join forward deployed U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 18th Aggressor Squadron, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, B-52 Stratofortress aircraft currently deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, from the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron will participate in this year's Cope North exercise Feb. 2 to13. Cope North 09-1 is the first iteration of a regularly scheduled joint and bilateral exercise and is part of the on-going series of exercises designed to enhance air operations in defense of Japan.

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