F-16CJ - Another sortie starts

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM—An F-16CJ deployed to the 363rd Air Expeditionary Wing takes off for a mission during a sand storm on March 25. Aircraft move around the clock to support Operation Iraqi Freedom at a forward deployed location in Southwest Asia. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and the regime of Saddam Hussein. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew Hannen)