F-16Cs assigned to the 157th EFS armed with AIM-120 AMRAAMs and AGM-88 HARMs taxi for takeoff at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia during OEF on March 15th, 2003. [USAF photo by SMSgt. Edward E. Snyder]

SSgt. Nesbitt & SrA. Ackerman, both assigned to the 157th EFS, conduct a preflight inspection of F-16C block 52 #93-0535 somewhere in Southwest Asia during OEF on March 15th, 2003. [USAF photo by SMSgt. Edward E. Snyder]

An unidentified USAF F-16C pPilot assigned to the 157th EFS checks an AIM-120 AMRAAM during the preflight inspection of his aircraft at a forward deployed location in Southwest Asia during OEF on March 15th, 2003. [USAF photo by SMSgt. Edward E. Snyder]

Maintenance airmen get ready for the aircrew's arrival at an F-16C from the 466th FS while at Al Udeid AB on April 24th, 2000. The F-16C is equipped with GBU-12 500-pound laser-guided munitions for strike missions into Afghanistan in support of OEF. [USAF photo by MSgt. Dave...

"MERRY X-MAS OSAMA!!!" is only one of the bomb graffiti messages on this GBU-31 JDAM on an F-16C from the 389th EFS during their OEF deployment from early November 2001 to early January 2002 to Al Udeid AB. [USAF photo]