Senior Airman Kenneth Bird, a conventional munitions maintainer assigned to the 451st Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, guides a bomb being transferred to the assembly rack to be built June 9, 2012. Personnel are deployed from McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Swamp Fox F-16s, pilots, and support personnel began their air expeditionary force deployment early April to take over flying missions for the air tasking order and provide close air support for troops on the ground in Afghanistan.