Mavericks live at Patriot Rifle III
Staff Sgt. Jason Hairgrove, 717th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, weapons loader, and Master Sgt. Richard Taliaferro, 717th AMXS, armament systems specialist, carry a LAU-117 missile rail to a 47th Fighter Squadron A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft to facilitate loading of an AGM-65 Maverick missile in support of Patriot Rifle III, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, on September 12, 2009. More than 54 members of the 917th Wing from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., and six aircraft participated in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Greg Steele)