Senior Master Sgt. Matt Youngerman, Loadmaster Superintendent for the 315th Airlift Control Flight, secures a M1A1SA Abram using heavy-duty chains aboard a C-17 prior to flight. The South Carolina Army National Guard’s 1-118th Combined Arms Battalion (CAB) participates in heavy airlift operations April 10-11, 2014 at Wright Army Airfield (WAAF), Hinesville, Ga., to demonstrate the joint, total force, capabilities of the Army Guard and Air Force Reserve’s 315th Airlift Wing. Soldiers and Airmen worked in unison over two days to load and secure four of the 1-118th CAB’s new M1A1SA Abr


Senior Master Sgt. Matt Youngerman, Loadmaster Superintendent for the 315th Airlift Control Flight, secures a M1A1SA Abram using heavy-duty chains aboard a C-17 prior to flight. The South Carolina Army National Guard’s 1-118th Combined Arms Battalion (CAB) participates in heavy airlift operations April 10-11, 2014 at Wright Army Airfield (WAAF), Hinesville, Ga., to demonstrate the joint, total force, capabilities of the Army Guard and Air Force Reserve’s 315th Airlift Wing. Soldiers and Airmen worked in unison over two days to load and secure four of the 1-118th CAB’s new M1A1SA Abrams Main Battle Tanks onto four Air Force C-17 transport planes for transportation to McEntire Joint National Guard Base in Eastover, (Photo by Sgt. Brian Calhoun/Released)


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