A U.S. Airman with a combat controller team assigned to the 720th Special Tactics Group clears a C-130H3 Hercules aircraft to land during night airfield operations on an airfield in northeastern Niger Feb. 28, 2014, during exercise Flintlock 2014. Flintlock is a special operations forces exercise designed to hone the capabilities of U.S. and partner nation military units in Trans-Saharan Africa.