DULUTH GUARD IRAQ DEPLOYMENT A 'FAMILY AFFAIR'...41 family members serving together at airpower hub
BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Airmen from the 148th Fighter Wing, Duluth Air National Guard Base, Minn., pose for a 'family' photograph. Of the more than 250 Duluth Guardsmen deployed here to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing's 'Tuskegee Airmen,' 41 are related. Pictured left to right, front to back are: brothers MSgt David and SMSgt Jerome Blazevic; son A1C Ben and father Col Jay Butcher; MSgt Anne Lied (husband Capt Alek Lied not pictured); husband SMSgt Dennis Dieryck, sister to LtCol Dieryck TSgt Kerry Schaub, and wife LtCol Penny Dieryck; daughter A1C Leilani and mother SMSgt Marcia Dumancas; and brothers SrA Jacob and SSgt Caleb Keppeler. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nathan Doza)