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Caption:
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan -- Staff Sgt. Franklin Newbery (left)
teaches Col. Derrick Hoxie III how to take oil and fluid samples from
an A-10 Thunderbolt II here Dec. 25. The colonel was
participating in the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron's Crew
Chief for a Day program. The program offers deployed Airmen of
all Air Force specialties a chance to experience what it is like to
work on fighter jets. "What better way is there to spend
Christmas Day while on deployment than with the maintainers out on the
flightline?" said Colonel Hoxie, the Combined Joint Task Force-76
deputy commander. "I learned that we have a very professional team of
maintainers out there, and the experience only reaffirmed what I have
thought all along." Sergeant Newbery is a crew chief deployed from
Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, supporting Operation Enduring
Freedom. Colonel Hoxie is deployed from the 552nd Air Control
Wing at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. (U.S Air Force photo by
Staff Sgt. Jennifer Lindsey)
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