C-130 Hercules - Airmen support Soldiers with airdrop

SOUTHWEST ASIA—Capt. Jared Pavlich watches for ground traffic from the top hatch of a C-130 Hercules before an airdrop mission. Aircrews delivered 48 bundles containing about 69,000 pounds of food rations to U.S. and Iraqi Soldiers engaged in combat operations against anti-Iraqi forces. Captain Pavlich is a C-130 navigator with the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron at a forward-deployed location and is from Pope Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Al Gerloff)