A learning experience: aerial porters polish their skills at improved Transportation Proficiency Center.(Air Force Reserve, 92nd Aerial Port Squadron, Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania)

Citizen Airman | February 1, 2005| | Copyright

With a thick blanket of grey smoke hugging the ground and the pounding of mortar fire echoing in the distance, a small team of Air Force Reserve aerial porters from the 92nd Aerial Port Squadron, Wyoming Valley, Pa., decked out in full chemical protection gear, trudged from their tent toward the back of a C-130 and quickly pushed a pallet full of critical supplies onto the waiting 25K Halverson loader.

Loading and unloading military aircraft under ideal conditions is hard enough, but, as these porters were quickly discovering on a balmy November morning, doing it in ...

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