Capt. Elizabeth Valasek, a C-130 Hercules navigator assigned to the 777th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, looks out to the horizon during a flying mission over Iraq generating out of Joint Base Balad, Iraq on July 25, 2010. Captain Valasek is deployed from the 50th Airlift Squadron at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt. Andy M. Kin)