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Senior Airman Justin Smith, Tech. Sgt. Heath Tempel and Senior Airman Bren Mejia, identify ordnance.
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Justin Smith, Tech. Sgt. Heath Tempel and Senior Airman Bren Mejia, identify ordnance as they inventory munitions found in a cache in Ruwaydah, Iraq, on Dec. 18, 2007. Smith, Tempel and Mejia are assigned to the 506th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit. The ordnance is being cataloged and prepared for a controlled detonation.