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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Daniel L. Mortensen secures a pallet of supplies in a C-130 Hercules aircraft at the Utaphao International Airport in Pattaya, Thailand, May 12, 2008. The aircraft is headed to Burma as part of Joint Task Force Caring Response, the joint humanitarian assistance and disaster relief response to Tropical Cyclone Nagris. Mortensen is a loadmaster assigned to the 36th Air Lift Squadron.

SECURING A PALLET

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Daniel L. Mortensen secures a pallet of supplies in a C-130 Hercules aircraft at the Utaphao International Airport in Pattaya, Thailand, May 12, 2008. The aircraft is headed to Burma as part of Joint Task Force Caring Response, the joint humanitarian assistance and disaster relief response to Tropical Cyclone Nagris. Mortensen is a loadmaster assigned to the 36th Air Lift Squadron.

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