Senior Airman Melvin Bazan and Tech. Sgt. Desmond Allen, both of the 482nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, load an inert bomb onto an F-16 during the 482nd AMXS’s Quarterly Load Crew Competition at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., April 7. Homestead ARB recently conducted a series of Live Ordnance Loading Area operations. More commonly known as LOLA, the operations consist of loading live ordnance on F-16s in an authorized area on the flightline away from people and buildings. Once the flying schedule calls for live munitions on flying sorties, the aircraft are positioned on the LOLA and weapons load crews are dispatched to perform the live loading operations. The aircraft remain on LOLA until takeoff or until live munitions have been downloaded. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Leo Castellano)

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