A Air Force HC-130J Combat King II assigned to the 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron take-offs from an unprepared landing zone at Grand Bara, Djibouti, July 2, 2023. The 81st ERQS is able to rapidly deploy to execute recovery operations to austere airfields and denied territory, exploiting airpower’s attributes of speed, range, precision, tempo, lethality, and adaptability to create right time, right place effects. ( Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dhruv Gopinath)

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