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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Staff Sgt. Gabriel Molanders, an Air Force C-130 Hercules loadmaster with the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, martials in Airman 1st Class Bryan Rogers, an aerial porter with the 447th Air Expeditionary Group, who's delivering a baggage pallet for a group of Soldiers from Fort Benning, Ga., departing Iraq on May 13, 2008. Sergeant Molanders is deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas and Airman Rogers is deployed from McGuire AFB, N.J. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael O'Connor)

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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Senior Airman Joel Pfaff, a C-130 Hercules loadmaster with the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, stands next to the rear left troop cargo door ensuring all passengers make it onboard safely during a passenger/cargo mission to an air base in Iraq May 13, 2008. Airman Pfaff is deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, and the Soldiers returning home from a 14-month-deployment are from the A-Battery, 1-10 Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 31st Division out of Fort Benning, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael O'Connor)

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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Soldiers returning home from a 14-month-deployment in Iraq step-off of an Air Force C-130 Hercules at an air base in the Persian Gulf Region May 13, 2008. The Soldiers are deployed from the A-Battery, 1-10 Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 31st Division out of Fort Benning, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael O'Connor)

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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Senior Airman Joel Pfaff, a C-130 Hercules loadmaster with the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, martials in Airman 1st Class Bryan Rogers, an aerial porter from the 447th Air Expeditionary Group during a passenger and cargo download/upload mission at an air base in Iraq May 13, 2008. Airman Pfaff is deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, and Airman Rogers is deployed from McGuire AFB, N.J. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael O'Connor)

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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Army 1st Lt. John Costello (front left) and 1st Lt. Ruben Ramos (front right), take a power nap in the back of an Air Force C-130 Hercules after departing an air base in Iraq on May 13, 2008. The Soldiers are returning home from a 14-month-deployment in Iraq and are deployed from the A-Battery, 1-10 Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 31st Division out of Fort Benning, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael O'Connor)

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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Senior Airman Joel Pfaff, an Air Force C-130 Hercules loadmaster with the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, uses a personal digital assistant to compute the weight and balance of the aircraft prior to take-off from an air base in Iraq on May 13, 2008. Airman Pfaff's job is to ensure the load (cargo and passengers) are balanced correctly in the back of the aircraft. Airman Pfaff is deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael O'Connor)

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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- A Dyess Air Force Base C-130 Hercules assigned to the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron awaits its crew, passengers and cargo May 13, 2008, before being flown on a mission into Iraq from an air base in the Persian Gulf Region. The 737th EAS is assigned to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing which received and processed out more than 330,000 passengers, 48,000 tons of cargo, baggage and mail, onboard more than 8,200 C-130 and C-17 Globemaster III missions during the Air and Space Expeditionary Force 1 and 2 rotation which first arrived to the air base in Jan. 2008. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael O'Connor)

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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Captain Nancy Badgett, an Air Force C-130 Hercules pilot with the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, goes through her pre-flight checklist before engine start-up at an air base in the Persian Gulf Region on May 13, 2008. Captain Badgett was the aircraft commander of a mission which dropped off and picked up Soldiers and civilians to and from an air base in Iraq. Captain Badgett is deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael O'Connor)

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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Staff Sgt. James Rice, an Air Force C-130 Hercules engineer and 1st Lt. Justin Fitzpatrick, a co-pilot with the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, go through a pre-flight checklist to ensure all the control and pressure guages are working on the instrument panel prior to the aircraft's departure on a passenger/cargo mission to Iraq on May 13, 2008. Both Lieutenant Fitzpatrick and Sergeant Rice are deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael O'Connor)

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Published May 15, 2008