Friends and family await the return of Airmen assigned to the 729th Air Control Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, April 29, 2019, following the unit's 7-month Middle East deployment. While deployed, 729th ACS Airmen provided aircraft control and air surveillance across a 1.1 million square miles of U.S. Air Force Central Command airspace. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)