Senior Airman John Cone, a contracting administrator with the 509th Contracting Squadron, writes a memorandum during a mock deployment exercise, Oct. 9, 2019, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. Operation Pathfinder simulated sending two teams of nine contracting Airmen to establish a deployed base for 700 joint personnel in Mogadishu, Somalia. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Parker J. McCauley)