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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Rodrigo Maranon pushes a pallet of personal protective kits into position aboard a C-17 Globemaster III on Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., May 8, 2009. Maranon is a Air Cargo Specialist, assigned to the 437th Aerial Port Squadron. The kits are part of a U.S. Agency for International Development shipment to Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Belize to help these nations prepare for a potential outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus.

PALLET PUSHER

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Rodrigo Maranon pushes a pallet of personal protective kits into position aboard a C-17 Globemaster III on Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., May 8, 2009. Maranon is a Air Cargo Specialist, assigned to the 437th Aerial Port Squadron. The kits are part of a U.S. Agency for International Development shipment to Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Belize to help these nations prepare for a potential outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus.

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