Posted: 01/16/2019
A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber, assigned to the 96th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, takes off from Royal Australian Air Force Base (RAAF) Darwin, Australia, to return to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Dec. 9, 2018. The B-52 was in RAAF Darwin, Australia participating in exercise Lightning Focus, an Australian training exercise designed around improving, developing and integrating partner capabilities as part of Enhanced Air Cooperation (EAC) under the Force Posture Initiative between the United States and Australia. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christopher Quail)