Air Force Reservist Senior Airman Forrest C. Purdy holds his wife Gayla close at Sacramento International Airport Feb. 18, 2008 after returning home from a deployment. A vehicle operator assigned to the 940th Logistics Readiness Squadron, Beale Air Force Base, Calif., he was mobilized for six months to serve with the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing, Manas Air Base, in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Ellen L. Hatfield)