Gen. Petr Pavel, NATO military committee chairman, and Maj. Adam Mattheis, 335th Fighter Squadron pilot, prepare to take off in an F-15E Strike Eagle, Nov. 15, 2016, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Mattheis recently returned from a deployment in which 2,000 bombs were dropped over enemy territory, and more than 10 high-value Islamic State of Iraq and Levant individuals were killed. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Miranda A. Loera)