EIELSON AIR BASE, Alaska -- Senior Airman Lulimana Meals and Airman 1st Class Ryan Blackburn plot a mission Oct. 7 for the first tactical mission of Cope Thunder 06-01. The two-week Alaskan exercise is the largest air combat training exercise, involving more than 1,000 active-duty and Air National Guard Airmen and 87 aircraft. The sergeants are intelligence analysts with the 52nd Operations Support Squadron from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. A.C. Eggman)