Crew chiefs turn bombers like fighters
OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -- Senior Airman Vincent Tripodi packs up communication equipment used to talk to the cockpit crew before launching a B-52 Stratofortress. He is a crew chief with the 40th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron at a forward-deployed location and is from Minot Air Force Base, N.D. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jocelyn Rich)