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Faces of Global Thunder 26

Senior Airman Sierra Smith, 91st Missile Maintenance Squadron missile maintainer, performs maintenance operations during Operation Bully Stick near Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Oct. 23, 2025. Operation Bully Stick is an exercise designed to test the wing’s ability to rapidly generate intercontinental ballistic missile readiness under agile combat employment concepts. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Vincent Padilla)

PHOTO BY: Airman 1st Class Vincent Padilla
VIRIN: 251023-F-YE967-2288.JPG
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NIKON Z 6_2

LENS

VR 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G

APERTURE

45/10

SHUTTERSPEED

1/1000

ISO

64

IMAGE IS PUBLIC DOMAIN

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