Airmen drop the ball
SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Airmen of the 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron install lights into the New Year's Eve Ball they built. The ball has 417 lights. They built it in about 72 hours. It was suspended approximately 100 feet in the air and lowered from a crane as the crowd counted down the seconds until 2006. The squadron's version of the Times Square tradition is larger and heavier than the New York version. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Sarah Webb)