FORWARD DEPLOYED LOCATION, SOUTHWEST AISA - Staff Sgt. Mike Maier, a pavement and equipment journeyman with the 126th Civil Engineering Squadron, prepares for an outside the wire mission to build new Southwest Asia huts for future Iraqi Army and patrol units. Maier is a member of the Illinois Air National Guard assigned to the 126th Air Refueling Wing at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. and is deployed with several of his peers in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (Photographer unknown)