MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D.- Airman 1st Class Cody Lytle, 5th Operations Support Squadron, Aircrew Flight Equipment Technician, prepares to pack a parachute here April 27. The 5 OSS inspected approximately 144 parachutes in support of exercise Prairie Vigilance 09-7. Prairie Vigilance is a combined-wing exercise established to implement and assure safe, secure, reliable nuclear weapons standards and procedures. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Angel Gallardo)
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Airman 1st Class Craig McNett, 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, passes through an entry control point, April 24, after working a long day during Prairie Vigilance 09-7. Prairie Vigilance is a combined-wing exercise established to implement and assure safe, secure, reliable nuclear weapons standards and procedures. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kelly Timney)
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Staff Sgt Casey Glass, a 5th Bomb Wing Paralegal, briefs Airmen simulating to deploy at a deployment processing line at Minot Air Force Base, April 24. The processing line was in support of Prairie Vigilance 09-7, which is a combined-wing exercise established to implement and assure safe, secure, reliable nuclear weapons standards and procedures. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kelly Timney)