Straight on in
Airman 1st Class David Smallsreed, 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, gives the “straight on in” hand signal to a 60K loader operated by Staff Sgt. Jeremy Kelley, 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron, Aug. 28, 2008 at an undisclosed air base in Southwest Asia. Two pallets of equipment and supplies are to be loaded onto a C-130 Hercules aircraft. Tech. Sgt. Heath Bayhi, 746 EAS, and Senior Airman Brett Villar, 8 EAMS, wait to assist. Sergeant Bayhi and Airman Smallsreed are deployed from Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sergeant Kelley is deployed from Stratton Air National Guard, N.Y., and Airman Villar is deployed from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., all in support of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom and Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael Boquette/Released)