3/30/2011 - MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan – Senior Airman Justin Ackerman, 35th Maintenance Squadron transient alert technician, guides a C-17 Globemaster from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on the flightline March 27, 2011. Airman Ackerman, a native of Columbia, S.C., said he was proud to assist in Operation Tomodachi in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan March 11, 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joe W. McFadden / RELEASED)

3/30/2011 - MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan – Capt. Derek Dupuis, 517th Airlift Squadron C-17 Globemaster pilot assigned to Joint-Base Elmendorf Richardson, Alaska, pushes a crate of supplies down the aircraft’s cargohold at the flightline March 27, 2011. The supplies will be used in support of Operation Tomodachi. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joe W. McFadden / RELEASED)