Air Force loadmasters with the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, configure a C-17 Globemaster III for an airdrop while a Army Joint Airdrop Inspection rigger with the 421st Quartermaster Company, rigs static lines 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.
Air Force loadmasters with the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, configure a C-17 Globemaster III for an airdrop while a Army Joint Airdrop Inspection rigger with the 421st Quartermaster Company, rigs static lines 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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