Maintainers from the 380th Air Expeditionary Squadron prep the E-3G Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft for its first-ever combat sortie from an undisclosed location Southwest Asia, Nov. 20, 2015. The E-3G is the newest model of Sentry aircraft to be recently completed as part of the AWACS modernization program. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kentavist P. Brackin)