Medical Transport

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -- Medical people at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, transport one of the 19 servicemembers who were injured during a friendly-fire incident in Afghanistan on Dec. 5, 2001. Fourteen of the soldiers arrived at Ramstein on Dec. 7 aboard a C-141 Starlifter from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., and were transported to nearby Landstuhl Regional Medical Center for treatment. The soldiers, all members of elite special operations units, were injured Dec. 5 north of Kandahar, when ordnance dropped from a B-52H Stratofortress inadvertently struck near their position. The friendly-fire incident is currently under investigation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Keith Reed)

Work Loads

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -- U.S. Air Force people from the 723rd Aerial Port Squadron at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, load a forklift aboard a C-17A Globemaster III cargo plane, Dec. 10. The forklift will be used to offload pallets of humanitarian aid at the airport in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. The maximum payload capacity of the C-17 is 170,900 pounds, and its maximum gross takeoff weight is 585,000 pounds. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Efrain Gonzalez)

HALO drop

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -– Master Sgt. John Buzby (left), a physiological technician from Kadena Air Base, Japan, and Master Sgt. Ron Pierce, a C-17A Globemaster III loadmaster from the 7th Airlift Squadron at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., prepare for the release of containers during an High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) air drop over northern Afghanistan on Dec. 15. Two other C-17s dropped 17,000 humanitarian daily rations, 72 containers of wheat and blankets, bringing the total number of HDRs delivered to more than 2.5 million, Dec. 16. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Scott Reed)

Off loading

OPERATIONS ENDURING FREEDOM -- Air Force Reservists from the 97th Airlift Squadron at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., and Airmen from the 723rd Aerial Port Squadron at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, offload pallets of humanitarian aid from a C-17A Globemaster III cargo aircraft at Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on Dec. 10. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Efrain Gonzalez)

Hold it there

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -- Airman 1st Class Scott McCormrick from the 437th Aircraft Generation Squadron at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., marshals in a C-17A Globemaster III at an operating location in support of the U.S. Central Command execution of Operation Enduring Freedom on Nov. 16. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Bergmann)

Starlifter check

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -- Mississippi Air National Guardsmen Staff Sgt. Mitchell Sojourner (left) from the 72nd Aircraft Generation Squadron, and Master Sgt. John Carter from the 72nd Maintenance Squadron in Jackson, Miss., complete post-flight engine checks on a C-141B Starlifter at an operating location in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The Starlifter fulfills the vast spectrum of airlift requirements through its ability to airlift combat forces and their equipment and drop them via air or land drop. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Bergmann)