U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. James Dontes, 20th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., communicates with Pilot Maj. Jerad Hand (not pictured) in a F-16 Fighting Falcon that returned from a combat training mission June 14, 2012, during Red Flag-Alaska at Eielson AFB, Alaska. Red Flag-Alaska is a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored, joint/coalition, tactical air combat employment exercise which corresponds to the operational capability of participating units. The entire exercise takes place in the Joint Pacific Range Complex over Alaska as well as a portion of Western Canada for a total airspace of more than 67,000 square miles.
Tech. Sgt. Michael Holzworth
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