Ellsworth hosts annual load competition
Senior Airman Carlos Del Valle III, a weapons load crew member assigned to the 37th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, retrieves a Mark 82 General Purpose bomb for a load competition at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., March 17, 2017. The loading standardization crew evaluates each competing team on performing safe and reliable weapons loading operations in accordance with B-1 bomber weapons loading technical orders and Air Force instructions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Nicolas Z. Erwin)