A C-17 Globemaster III is loaded, in preparation for airdrops in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The C-17 plays a key role in the delivery of supplies to forward operating bases that prevent convoys from reaching safely. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Joshua T Jasper)


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EVACUATION FLIGHT - U.S. Air Force Col. William Venanzi plays with a 3-year-old Iraqi burn victim on board a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft during a medical evacuation flight to the U.S. from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, March 21, 2008. Venanzi is a part of a critical care air transport team assigned to 88th Medical Group. The child and his mother flew from Balad Air Base, Iraq, to the U.S. to obtain treatment and physical therapy for second- and third-degree burns covering 45 percent of the boy's body. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Allen

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C-17S OVER CHARLESTON - Fifteen C-17 Globemaster IIIs from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., fly over the city of Charleston, S.C.'s Arthur J. Ravenel Bridge Dec. 20, 2007, during a training exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr.

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ARMY EQUIPMENT FIGHTS FIRES
U.S. Army equipment is unloaded from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at March Air Force Base, Calif., Oct. 24, 2007. The equipment is part of a federal support package used to assist federal, state and local agencies responding to the California wildfires. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Troy Latham

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Army Capt. Dustin Menhart assists in setting up a raised angle marker on a drop zone in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Oct. 11, 2007, in preparation for the largest air supply drop in Operation Enduring Freedom history. Menhart is commander, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Micah E. Clare


As bundles from the lead C-17 Globemaster III drift to the ground, a second C-17 prepares to drop more bundles to a drop zone in Afghanistan on Oct. 11, 2007. A total of 62 cargo bundles were dropped from two C-17s in two passes. This was the first time a combat cargo drop of this magnitude has taken place using two C-17s in formation over one drop zone. The planes and crews are part of the 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, Manas, Kyrgyzstan. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson


A second Air Force C-17 Globemaster drops Combat Delivery System bundles just a few hundred feet above another set floating down to coalition soldiers waiting below, Oct. 11, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Micah E. Clare


Paratroopers from the 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division watch as Combat Delivery System bundles carrying food and water float to the ground in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Oct. 11, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Micah E. Clare


A Humvee rushes to the landing site of a Combat Delivery System bundle in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Oct. 11, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Micah E. Clare


A helicopter hovers over a bundle of airdropped supplies, where paratroopers from the 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division wait to sling-load the supplies for transportation to the nearby Bandar command observation post in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Oct. 11, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Micah E. Clare



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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFNEWS) -- Only hours after a helicopter crashed in Afghanistan, Airmen from an aeromedical evacuation control team in Southwest Asia got 11 of fourteen injured survivors onboard a C-17 Globemaster III bound for Germany."That really made a difference in saving lives" said Lt. Col. Lenora Cook, the evacuation control team chief.

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