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Slideshow: 816th EAS brings troops, drops chutes

  • Published
  • By Staff Sgt. Manuel Martinez
  • U.S. AFCENT Combat Camera Team
An aircrew assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron flew a passenger-transportation mission from an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia to Bagram, Air Base, Afghanistan, Feb. 1.

The crew then loaded roughly 60,000 pounds of supplies onto their C-17 Globemaster III and air-dropped the container-delivery-system bundles over remote locations in Afghanistan the same day.

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