Senior Airman Benjamin Connery, 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron A-10 crewchief, closes the crew boarding ladder door and disconnects his headset from the communications port of a A-10 Thunderbolt II at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Oct. 18, 2008. Both crewchief and pilot stay in constant communication throughout the preflight inspections allowing the crewchief to be the pilot's eyes and ears outside the aircraft. Connery is deployed from the 23rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Ga., and hails from Cashmere, Wash.