Airman 1st Class Joey Granado, who is a native of Dallas and a firefighter with 506th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, Crash-Fire-Rescue, from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., poses, while on Forward Operating Base Warrior, Kirkuk, Iraq, June 3. When Granado isn't working as a firefighter, he is in charge of the program Operation Soccer Ball, which has collected more than 2,000 soccer balls for the children of Kirkuk.