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75th Operations Squadron air traffic controllers (left to right) Senior Airman Charles Parks, Senior Airman Jonathon Blanks and John Jobst watch closely from the control tower cab as Col. James Doyle, 413th Flight Test Group test pilot, taxis past after landing on taxiway Alpha in an A-10 Thunderbolt II at the end of a functional check flight at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, July 10, 2019. The runway at Hill AFB was closed for most of the summer, requiring test pilots to temporarily use the taxiway as a runway. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alex R. Lloyd)