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BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. William Hinkley, a metals technologist assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron fabrication flight, fashions a piece of metal into an aircraft component using a computer numerical controlled lathe here, June 10. The CNC lathe allows the Airmen to enter and store codes into the machine that tells it the dimensions the component should be. The Fabrication Flight Airmen fix and build aircraft components needed to fly F-16s, C-130s, unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters and Army assets. Sergeant Hinkley is deployed from Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S. Air Force photo /Staff Sgt. John Ayre)


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BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. William Hinkley, a metals technologist assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron fabrication flight, fashions a piece of metal into an aircraft component using a computer numerical controlled lathe here, June 10. The CNC lathe allows the Airmen to enter and store codes into the machine that tells it the dimensions the component should be. The Fabrication Flight Airmen fix and build aircraft components needed to fly F-16s, C-130s, unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters and Army assets. Sergeant Hinkley is deployed from Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S. Air Force photo /Staff Sgt. John Ayre)