Systems check
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Travis Cox runs a preflight check Jan. 1 in the forward loadmaster seat of a deployed C-17. The C-17 is capable of rapid strategic delivery of troops and all types of cargo to main operating bases or directly to forward bases in deployed combat areas. Airman Cox is a loadmaster deployed from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., and is assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Kasey Zickmund)