Airmen aid coalition ground forces
SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Staff Sgt. John Columbia, a loadmaster with the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, sits in the ready position at a troop passenger door of a C-130 Hercules during a recent mission over an Iraqi province. Sergeant Columbia sits ready to manually dispense chaff/flare if primary means do not function automatically when fired upon. The mission is part of leaflet air drop mission supporting the Australians from Overwatch Battle Group [West]-4 in southern Iraq. Sergeant Columbia is deployed from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, in support of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/1st Lt. Brock Burkhardt)
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