Staff Sgt. Micah Sowders (left) and Senior Airman Sterling Heaton, avionics specialists with the 451st Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, perform an auxiliary check on a radio in an F-16 from the South Carolina Air National Guard's 157th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron on June 25, 2012.

Members of the 169th Fighter Wing at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., are deployed to KAF in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Swamp Fox F-16's, pilots, and support personnel began their Air Expeditionary Force deployment early April to take over flying missions for the air tasking order and provide close air support for troops on the ground in Afghanistan.

Photo by USAF Tech. Sgt. Stephen Hudson