Master Sgt. Eric Gast, a loadmaster from the Tennessee Air Guard, guides a forklift from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group onto a C-17 aircraft at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Aug. 29, 2017 in preparation for Hurricane Harvey rescue efforts in Texas. More than 40 Airmen from the Kentucky and Mississippi Air National Guard are heading to George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, where they will rapidly establish airfield, aeromedical evacuation and cargo operations. ( Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Phil Speck)

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