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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Carter Wedding, 357th Fighter Generation Squadron crew chief, stands atop a ladder beside an A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 3, 2023. Wedding monitored engine startups before the aircraft was cleared for takeoff. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Robert Allen Cooke III)