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Senior Airman Steve Roeper inspects and cleans a rack on an A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft.
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Steve Roeper, a weapons technician with the 107th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, inspects and cleans a rack on an A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft at Kandahar Airfield in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on Dec. 2, 2011. An A-10 is capable of employing a wide variety of conventional ammunition, including general purpose bombs, cluster bomb units and laser guided bombs.