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Senior Airman Edwin Widgeon crawls into the intake of an F-16 Fighting Falcon.
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Edwin Widgeon crawls into the intake of an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft to check for foreign objects prior to an engine test at Balad Air Base, Iraq, on Nov. 9, 2007. Widgeon is deployed to Iraq as part of the 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron from the New Mexico Air National Guard's 150th Fighter Wing.