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Empty HDR (Humanitarian Daily Ration) boxes are piled up before being crushed and recycled at the TRIAD (Tri-Wall Aerial Delivery) System staging area on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The HDR meals are then placed in larger boxes for aerial delivery for refugees in Afghanistan during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Empty HDR (Humanitarian Daily Ration) boxes are broken down and recycled at the TRIAD (Tri-Wall Aerial Delivery) System staging area on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The HDR meals are reboxed for aerial delivery to the refugees in Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

A Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR) box awaiting to be unpacked and repacked into the Tri-Wall Aerial Delivery (TRIAD) box system for upcoming airdrops. When completed and filled the TRIAD box consists of 410 HDRs to be airdrop in Afghanistan, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Members of the US Air Force and Army fill Tri-Wall Aerial Delivery System (TRIADS) with Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDRs). US Air Force C-17A Globemaster IIIs delivered HDRs in support of ENDURING FREEDOM from Germany to Afghan refugees who have massed inside the borders of Afghanistan. Eighty-four TRIAD boxes, each measuring 80 inches tall and 48 by 48 inches square, filled with 420 HDRs will be loaded onto a C-17A Globemaster III. In a three way first the C-17A will deliver the first operational TRIAD delivery, it will be its first combat airdrop mission and this is the first of its kind, high altitude airdrop for HDRs

A US Army member fills a Tri-Wall Aerial Delivery System (TRIADS) with Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDRs). US Air Force C-17A Globemaster IIIs delivered HDRs in support of ENDURING FREEDOM from Germany to Afghan refugees who have massed inside the borders of Afghanistan. Eighty-four TRIAD boxes, each measuring 80 inches tall and 48 by 48 inches square, filled with 420 HDRs will be loaded onto a C-17A Globemaster III. In a three way first the C-17A will deliver the first operational TRIAD delivery, it will be its first combat airdrop mission and this is the first of its kind, high altitude airdrop for HDRs

Members of the US Air Force and Army fill Tri-Wall Aerial Delivery System (TRIADS) boxes with Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR). US Air Force C-17A Globemaster IIIs delivered HDRs in support of ENDURING FREEDOM from Germany to Afghan refugees who have massed inside the borders of Afghanistan. Eighty-four TRIAD boxes, each measuring 80 inches tall and 48 by 48 inches square, filled with 420 HDRs will be loaded onto a C-17A Globemaster III. In a three way first the C-17A will deliver the first operational TRIAD delivery, it will be its first combat airdrop mission and this is the first of its kind, high altitude airdrop for HDRs

A US Air Force C-17A Globemaster III returns to Germany after the successful Tri-Wall Aerial Delivery System (TRIADS) airdrop over Afghanistan. Air Force C-17's delivered Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR) in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM from Germany to Afghan refugees who massed inside the borders of Afghanistan. The C-17's carried more than 35,000 HDRs packed in 84 TRIAD boxes. Each box measures 80 inches tall and 48 inches square, containing 420 HDRs. The HDRs were delivered in a first of its kind, high-altitude airdrop. This is the first operational TRIAD delivery from a C-17 aircraft as well as the first combat airdrop mission performed by the C-17

Map of Afghanistan outlining the general area where Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR) food aid was air dropped by C-17 Globemaster IIIs flying out of Ramstein AB, Germany. The containers were airdropped on October 7th over eastern Afghanistan as part of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Image by TSgt Lee Phillips II

As part of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, SPECIALIST Charlene Kerby, USA, 5th Quartermaster Company, prepares a box that will be flown from Ramstein Air Base to Afghanistans displaced refugees. The box contains Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR)--each ration contains a one-day supply of food for one person

Empty HDR (Humanitarian Daily Ration) boxes are piled up before being crushed and recycled at the TRIAD (Tri-Wall Aerial Delivery) System staging area on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The HDR meals are then placed in larger boxes for aerial delivery for refugees in Afghanistan during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM

Base: Ramstein Air Base

State: Rheinland-Pfalz

Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Cherie Mcneill, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

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Members of the 86th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and

Jamaican volunteers begin removing boxes from a pallet of supplies that arrived aboard a C-130 Hercules aircraft of the 50th Tactical Airlift Squadron earlier in the day. The U.S. government sent the supplies to help Jamaica recover from the devastation w

US Marine Corps (USMC) personnel from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC), unload mail from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter for delivery to forward deployed US Armed Forces personnel, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

A water tank and a line of M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) stand on an airfield. Equipment is being delivered to an airfield as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

An Air Force C-17A Globemaster III, 437th Airlift Wing (AW), Charleston AFB, South Carolina, prepares to depart Germany loaded with Tri-Wall Aerial Delivery System (TRIADS) containers. Air Force C-17's delivered Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR) in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM from Germany to Afghan refugees who massed inside the borders of Afghanistan. The C-17's carried more than 35,000 HDRs packed in 84 TRIAD boxes. Each box measures 80 inches tall and 48 inches square, containing 420 HDRs. The HDRs were delivered in a first of its kind, high-altitude airdrop. This is the first operational TRIAD delivery from a C-17 aircraft as well as the first combat airdrop mission...

US Navy CHIEF Photographer's Mate Robert Sasek allows a Somali boy from the village of Maleel to look through the viewfinder of his video camera. Sasek, an Alton, Illinois native, is deployed with Pacific Fleet Combat Camera Group to Somalia to document the efforts of Joint Task Force Somalia. Sasek was outside the village to document the delivery of wheat to the villagers by US Marine helicopters (not shown). This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope

Rwandan refugees curiously observe cargo off-load operations of a C-141 Starlifter aircraft from the 452nd Avionics Maintenance Wing (AMW) Air Force Reserve (AFRES), March AFB, Calif

An Iraqi woman smiles as she carries a box of meals

A UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter patrols over a tent city near Zakhu that was established for Kurdish refugees. The encampment was erected as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurds who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

A volunteer from Sozo International offloads a truck

Medium shot. SENIOR AIRMAN Jad Aoun, and Technical Sergeant. Dennis Washington, both Air Transportation Specialists and members of the 86th Air Mobility Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, with help of local laborers, build pallets of humanitarian supplies at the International Airport at Maputo, Mozambique, Africa, 17 March 2000. Their team is deployed in support of Operation Atlas Response, a Humanitarian Aid Operation to help the people of Mozambique, after severe flooding displaced over a million people from their homes

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