Sgt. Michael Mead, CH-53E Super Stallion crew chief, Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361, Marine Aircraft Group 16, guides an extendable boom forklift driver while Cpl. Colby Yard, aerial gunner, HMM-361, watches the for clearance as they load a box full of election materials into their helicopter at Al Taqqadum, Iraq Jan. 28. Mead, a 22-year-old from Johnson City, , and Yard, a 22-year-old from LaHarpe, Ill., were part of a 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing effort to transport election workers and materials throughout the Al Anbar province prior to the Jan. 30 elections, the first democratic elec


Sgt. Michael Mead, CH-53E Super Stallion crew chief, Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361, Marine Aircraft Group 16, guides an extendable boom forklift driver while Cpl. Colby Yard, aerial gunner, HMM-361, watches the for clearance as they load a box full of election materials into their helicopter at Al Taqqadum, Iraq Jan. 28. Mead, a 22-year-old from Johnson City, , and Yard, a 22-year-old from LaHarpe, Ill., were part of a 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing effort to transport election workers and materials throughout the Al Anbar province prior to the Jan. 30 elections, the first democratic elections in the nation's history. USMC-050128-M-9245L-005


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