Tech. Sgt. Andrew Briggs, a loadmaster with the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, listens to a pre-flight intelligence briefing at an undisclosed air base in Southwest Asia on Aug. 30, 2010, as Airmen from the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing prepare to fly relief supplies into Pakistan. Record-setting monsoons have killed more than 1,600 Pakistanis and left over 2 million homeless, government officials said. The Airmen will be based at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, for the relief mission, which has already delievered hundereds of thousands of pounds of food, water and medicine to Pakistan. Sergeant Briggs is deployed from the 40th Airlift Squadron at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Dale Greer)