CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. -- Staff Sgt. Robert Royals, 27th Special Operations Support Squadron, attaches the Radiosonde, a global positioning system and wind speed reader to a balloon held by Master Sgt. Antonio Pressley, 27th SOSS, at Base Operations Dec. 2. The balloon and GPS unit are stored together in a small package, which is stored with 399 other balloon packages for a six-month deployment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class James R. Bell)