Maintaining cool
Lt. Col. Jim Nowak, 934th Airlift Wing navigator, opens the escape hatch above the cockpit of a C-130 Hercules to cool the aircraft's interior prior to takeoff from Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Oct. 6. Colonel Nowak was assigned to the 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron while deployed to Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson)