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A K-Loader from  the 62nd Aerial port Squadron, McChord AFB, Wash., being downloaded from a C-17 aircraft at Newport, Ore. The K-loader will be used to upload an orka, Keiko, for a return flight to his native waters in Iceland. The 10,000 pound whale will make the nonstop 9 hour flight on September 9th aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from the 15th Airlift Squadron at Charleston AFB, S.C.
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Service Branch
 US Air Force
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 C-17
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