Members of the 451st Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron aerial port flight and 22nd Airlift Squadron look over the load plan as they prepare to load an F/A-18 Super Hornet onto a C-5 Galaxy on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 18, 2011. This marked the first time ever that a U.S. fighter jet had been successfully loaded into a cargo aircraft for transport back to the United States. After months of coordination and planning, senior leaders at the Navy´s Naval Air Forces and the Air Force´s Air Mobility Command approved a plan to transport the aircraft back to its home station at Naval Air Station North Island near San Diego, Calif. (Senior Airman David Carbajal/Air Force)
