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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Bryce Kester inspects pallets of cargo that will be dropped from a C-17 Globemaster III to a forward operating base in Afghanistan, Aug. 27, 2009. Kester, a loadmaster from the 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, is deployed from McChord Air Force Base, Wash.

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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Bryce Kester inspects pallets of cargo that will be dropped from a C-17 Globemaster III to a forward operating base in Afghanistan, Aug. 27, 2009. Kester, a loadmaster from the 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, is deployed from McChord Air Force Base, Wash.

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