Lt. Col. Phillip Stewart conducts a preflight inspection of an MC-12 Liberty prior to the aircraft's first combat sortie June 10 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. A native of Silver Spring, Md., Colonel Stewart is the 362nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron commander and deployed from Langley Air Force Base, Va. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Tiffany Trojca)