Senior Airman Howard Schmitz opens the top panel on a new MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle preparing to pour motor oil into the four-cylinder 115 horse power engine Oct. 13. The 407th Air Expeditionary Group is taking on an additional mission flying Predator air operations from the longest airfield in southern Iraq. Airman Schmitz is deployed from the 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Creech Air Force Base, Nev.