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Tom Samples advises an Iraqi air traffic controller, directing the airspace of aircraft traveling through Iraq, Aug. 31, 2010, at Baghdad International Airport. Mr. Samples is contracted by the Iraq Civil Aviation Authority to train and advise Iraqi controllers. The Air Force is turning over airspace control from 15,000 to 24,000 feet in the northern sector of Iraq-known as the Kirkuk sector. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Perry Aston)