A North Carolina Air National Guard Airman waves out the doorway of a C-130 as it prepare to take off carrying deployers to Southwest Asia to support Operation Freedom's Sentinel, while on the flightlint of the North Carolina Air National Guard Base, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Feb. 24, 2017. It is the final deployment using the C-130 model aircraft before the unit transitions to using C-17's.

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