Airmen, assign to the 452nd Aeromedical Staging Squadron, March Air Reserve Base, Calif., prepare to transport a wounded casualty on to a C-17 Globemaster III. Service members are participating in Operational Readiness Exercise, Crisis Challenge 09-12B, at the Combat Readiness Center, Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 20, 2012. Throughout the exercise evaluators determine wing members’ abilities to mobilize, deploy, survive in combat environments and redeploy to home station. Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez

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