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Airman 1st Class Thomas Hickey (left) and Senior Airman Ryan Yarton push a pallet of cargo into a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at in Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, on Feb. 20, 2007. Hickey and Yarton, attached to the 728th Air Mobility Squadron, are helping to move some 94,000 pounds of cargo in joint effort with Turkish civilians to support the Afghan Army.

Airman 1st Class Thomas Hickey and Senior Airman Ryan Yarton push a pallet of cargo.

Airman 1st Class Thomas Hickey (left) and Senior Airman Ryan Yarton push a pallet of cargo into a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at in Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, on Feb. 20, 2007. Hickey and Yarton, attached to the 728th Air Mobility Squadron, are helping to move some 94,000 pounds of cargo in joint effort with Turkish civilians to support the Afghan Army.

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