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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brenton Phillips (right) of the 36th Mobility Response Squadron, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, and Staff Sgt. Norm Metz, a loadmaster with the 517th Airlift Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, download a pallet of medical supplies from a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in Padang, Indonesia, on Oct. 5, 2009. Phillips is an air transportation specialist deployed to Padang with a humanitarian assistance rapid response team to provide medical assistance to those affected by a recent earthquake.

Staff Sgt. Brenton Phillips and Staff Sgt. Norm Metz download a pallet of medical supplies.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brenton Phillips (right) of the 36th Mobility Response Squadron, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, and Staff Sgt. Norm Metz, a loadmaster with the 517th Airlift Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, download a pallet of medical supplies from a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in Padang, Indonesia, on Oct. 5, 2009. Phillips is an air transportation specialist deployed to Padang with a humanitarian assistance rapid response team to provide medical assistance to those affected by a recent earthquake.

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