U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Zac Brown gives his daughter a final hug before deploying from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., May 8, 2006, to Southwest Asia as part of a four-month rotation with the Air Expeditionary Force.

Brown is an air traffic standards evaluator with the 305th Aerial Port Squadron, McGuire AFB.

U.S. Air Force photo by Kenn Mann