Caption:
U.S Air Force personnel push a pallet of War Reserve Materials off of a
K-loader into a C-17 Globemaster III at an operating base in Southwest
Asia on Feb. 12, 1998. Members of the 815th Air Mobility Squadron are
operating a Tanker Airlift Control Element, commonly called a TALCE, to
control all military airlift traffic in and out of their deployed
location in support of Operation Southern Watch which is the U.S. and
coalition enforcement of the no-fly-zone over Southern Iraq. The
War Reserve Materials will be airlifted to other locations in the
operating area. The 615th and 815th are deployed from Travis Air
Force Base, Calif. The Globemaster is attached to the 17th
Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. DoD photo by
Staff Sgt. Efrain Gonzalez, U.S. Air Force.
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