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J.J. (standing) and Elena Gutierrez talk to their father over the Internet Sept. 26, 2009, from Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, while he’s deployed to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Juan Gutierrez, assigned to the 12th Dental Squadron, and his family use computers, Web cams and microphones to see and hear each other almost daily during his six-month deployment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Sonny Cohrs)
