US Air Force,
MANAS AIR BASE, Kyrgyzstan: The C-17 Globemaster III crewmembers start their day around noon. It will end in about 18 hours, around 5 or 6 tomorrow morning.
Today they will fly to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, and back twice, taking one group of passengers a step closer to home and another to the first day of their year long deployment supporting Operation Enduring Freedom and delivering about 25 pallets of cargo.
Preflight procedures have to be finished quickly — another C-17 is idling on the taxiway, waiting to take this jet
