Sgt. Japheth Forehand, distribution NCO for the Army’s 690th Rapid Port Opening Element in Fort Eustis, Va., secures a cargo container to a flatbed trailer as another is maneuvered into place and a C-17 flies overhead March 29, 2012, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Forehand was working at the Forward Node of a Joint Task Force-Port Opening during Eagle Flag, a Air Force-sponsored exercise to prepare units for operating in deployed environments. The Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group operated the airlift side of the JTF-PO, known as an Aerial Port

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Sgt. Japheth Forehand, distribution NCO for the Army’s 690th Rapid Port Opening Element in Fort Eustis, Va., secures a cargo container to a flatbed trailer as another is maneuvered into place and a C-17 flies overhead March 29, 2012, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Forehand was working at the Forward Node of a Joint Task Force-Port Opening during Eagle Flag, a Air Force-sponsored exercise to prepare units for operating in deployed environments. The Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group operated the airlift side of the JTF-PO, known as an Aerial Port of Debarkation. ( Air Force photo by Maj. Dale Greer)

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