"Flat Mads" patrols Iraqi skies

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Capt. Benjamin "Custer" Staats, a 22nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron fighter pilot, takes "Flat Mads", a paper replica of Army Col. Ken Walter's 8-year-old daughter Madeline, along on mission over Iraq. Colonel Walter, a member of the 316th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, keeps in touch with his daughter and her classmates in Pennsylvania about his experiences in Iraq. Captain Staats is deployed from Spangdahlem AB, Germany. (Courtesy photo)

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