C-17 crew uses combat offload to deliver materials to warzone
A forward operating base in Afghanistan doesn't have the equipment to move pallets in a C-17, so the aircrew decided to use the combat offload method to upload the pallets.
"We run up the engines, release the locks (on the pallets) and then release the brakes," Capt. Jeremy Reich, an 816th EAS C-17 pilot said. "It's like the magic trick where the tablecloth is ripped off the table without offsetting the dishes. Same principle -- we pull the aircraft out from under the pallets."
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