Air Force Airman First Class Stephen Swift, a loadmaster with the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, performs pre-flight checks and engine start-up at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, May 4, 2012. The C-17 is one of two aerial resupply platforms utilized by the Air Forces Air Mobility Division. In 2011 the AMD directed the dropping of over 58,000 bundles comprising more than 80 million pounds of critical supplies to personnel in austere combat outposts.

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Air Force Airman First Class Stephen Swift, a loadmaster with the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, performs pre-flight checks and engine start-up at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, May 4, 2012. The C-17 is one of two aerial resupply platforms utilized by the Air Forces Air Mobility Division. In 2011 the AMD directed the dropping of over 58,000 bundles comprising more than 80 million pounds of critical supplies to personnel in austere combat outposts.

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