Senior Airman Fred Cruz communicates with his unit using a land mobile radio at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Sept. 24, 2008. Cruz refuels aerospace ground equipment, including mobile generators, flood lights, portable heating and air conditioning units and other equipment across the flightline. Cruz, an AGE journeyman with the 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron, is deployed from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. His hometown is Sonora, Calif.