E-3A - Eye in the sky

ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska—An E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System from NATO’s Geilenkirchen Air Base, Germany, prepares for takeoff. The AWACS is here providing critical information to pilots and air operations center controllers during Cooperative Cope Thunder, a simulated combat airpower employment exercise, which ends June 20. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Keith Brown)