Airmen from the 1st Special Operations Maintenance

Airmen from the 1st Special Operations Maintenance Squadron conduct preflight checks on four MC-130P Combat Shadows and two MC-130H Combat Talon IIs during a training exercise on the flightline at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., July 25, 2011. Five of these aircraft departed simultaneously creating a rare dissimilar formation normally reserved for combat in deployed environments.