Master Sgt. William C. Cone Jr., retrograde noncommissioned

Master Sgt. William C. Cone Jr., retrograde noncommissioned officer in charge, left, directs Staff Sgt. Larry Davis III, retrograde noncommissioned officer, both serving with 1109th Aviation Sustainment Maintenance Group, a National Guard unit out of Groton, Conn., as he lowers a shipping container to be released to Operation Steel Purge, using a rough terrain cargo handler, at Patton Army Air Field, here, March 8. Operation Steel Purge is an effort to reclaim, repair and reuse government owned shipping containers throughout Kuwait to save the U.S. government money. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Ashley M. Outler, Third Army/ARCENT Public Affairs)