103rd Airlift Wing Airmen Return Home from Overseas Deployment

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Alex Pichardo, an airman with the 103d Operations Group, waves an American flag enthusiastically as one of two C-130 Hercules aircraft filled with deployed airmen taxis into the 103d Airlift Wing flightline on Dec. 9, 2025, East Granby Connecticut. More than one hundred airmen returned home to crowds of emotional friends and family following months deployed in the Horn of Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Captain Jen Kaprielian)

PHOTO BY: Drummond
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NIKON Z 6

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NIKKOR Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S Z TC-2.0x

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18

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1/160

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125

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