U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Bryce Kester, a loadmaster from the 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, monitors supplies being dropped from a C-17 Globemaster III to a forward operating base in Afghanistan, Aug. 27, 2009, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Airman Kester is deployed from McChord Air Force Base, Wash. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael B. Keller)