Engineers from the US Army’s 172nd Infantry Brigade, Task Force Blackhawk, prepare to board at C-130H Hercules at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, on their way to Forward Operating Base Sharana, Afghanistan, on 19 July 2011. The C-130 is deployed from the 176th Wing, the Alaska Air National Guard unit at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage. In theater, the aircraft is assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron.
