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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Raul Linares directs cargo coming off a C-130J Hercules aircraft at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, on May 1, 2008. Linares is a loadmaster assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron and deployed from the 115th Airlift Squadron, Channel Island Air National Guard Station, California Air National Guard, Port Hueneme, Calif.

Senior Airman Raul Linares directs cargo coming off a C-130J Hercules aircraft.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Raul Linares directs cargo coming off a C-130J Hercules aircraft at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, on May 1, 2008. Linares is a loadmaster assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron and deployed from the 115th Airlift Squadron, Channel Island Air National Guard Station, California Air National Guard, Port Hueneme, Calif.

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