AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. Jonathan Pollack, 438th Air Expeditionary Group structural maintenance technician, (left) and Master Sgt. Anthony Bahur, structural maintenance supervisor, perform a structural repair on an A-10C Thunderbolt II's engine inlet here. The 438th AEG’s newly upgraded A-10C Thunderbolt IIs are the first to fly in combat. Sergeants Pollack and Bahur are deployed from the 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard, Baltimore. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. D. Clare)