Deployed Tinker Airman, Fayetteville native, helps keep E-3 Sentry aircraft flying
Senior Airman Robert Kirby, an instrument and flight control systems journeyman, maintains the airborne warning and control system on the E-3 Sentry AWACS at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia. Here he is pictured near an E-3 on Jan. 23, 2010. Airman Kirby is deployed from the 552nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., and his hometown is Fayetteville, Ga. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow/Released)