Buddy care live

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan -- Senior Airman Jason Weiss bandages Maj. Peter Galindez's finger while Airman 1st Class Anthony Cannon, a security forces patrolman, watches the procedure. The medical technician was instructing a self-aid buddy care refresher course to 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Airmen when the major walked into the clinic with a deep cut on his hand. Airman Weiss is assigned to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing's flight medicine clinic. He is deployed from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jennifer Lindsey)

Windshield wiper

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- A crew chief with the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing cleans the windows of a C-130 Hercules at a forward-deployed location. C-130s support operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)

Loader in waiting

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Master Sgt. Dean Cook motions for Senior Airman Robert Charron to move his forklift and its pallet of cargo forward as Senior Airman Raymond Castoreno guides it into a C-130 Hercules. All three Airmen are assigned to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing at a forward-deployed location providing tactical airlift supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sergeant Cook is a loadmaster assigned to the 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron. Airman Charron and Airman Castoreno are assigned to the 386th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Aaron Burgstein)

Loader in waiting

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Master Sgt. Richard Baarda waits on the ramp of a C-130 Hercules for a pallet of cargo to be brought onboard. He and other Airmen of the 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron and its sister squadron, the 386th EAS, provide tactical airlift supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom as part of the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing. Sergeant Baarda is a loadmaster. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Aaron Burgstein)

Bladder control

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- (From left) Staff Sgts. Corey Kotek and Ron Casey tighten the fittings on a new fuel bladder at a deployed location here before filling it. Both sergeants are assigned to the 386th Expeditionary Logistics Fuels Flight. The flight is responsible for fueling both motor vehicles and aircraft for the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nicole Spence)

Bladder control

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Airman 1st Class Justin Speck installs a vent stack on a new 210,000-gallon fuel bladder at a deployed location here. The stack balances air pressure when fuel is pumped into the bladder. Airman Speck is assigned to the 386th Expeditionary Logistics Fuels Flight. The flight is responsible for fueling both motor vehicles and aircraft for the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nicole Spence)