Bulgaria, US commence joint air policing
Massachusetts Air National Guard Senior Airman Tim Bennett, a 194th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron munitions systems journeyman, places a container of chaffs into a transport container inside a hardened aircraft shelter on the flightline at Graf Ignatievo, Bulgaria, Sept. 8, 2016. Four of the squadron’s F-15C Eagle fighter aircraft will conduct joint NATO air policing missions with the Bulgarian air force to police the host nation’s sovereign airspace Sept. 9-16, 2016. The squadron forward deployed to Graf Ignatievo from Campia Turzii, Romania, where they serve on a theater security package deployment to Europe as a part of Operation Atlantic Resolve. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joe W. McFadden)