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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Tyler Fasig and Senior Airman Bryce Bennett, crew chiefs for the 182nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 182nd Airlift Wing, Illinois National Guard, assist Master Sgt. Tyler White, a loadmaster with the 169th Airlift Squadron, 182nd Airlift Wing, Illinois National Guard, with loading a rotary air compressor unit onto a C-130 Hercules to be delivered to Hohn Air Base, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, prior to the aircraft’s inaugural flight for the exercise Air Defender 2023 (AD23) from Wunstorf Air Base, Wunstorf, Germany, June 2, 2023. Exercise AD23 integrates both U.S. and Allied air-power to defend shared values, while leveraging and strengthening vital partnerships to deter aggression around the world. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Paul Helmig)