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You've been ... Operation Thunderstruck

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. William Elliot, a loadmaster with the 14th Airlift Squadron, looks out the paratroop door prior to releasing equipment over North Auxiliary Airfield near North, S.C. on Dec. 16 ,2009. Charleston Air Force Base Airmen conducted a joint strategic brigade airdrop exercise including 10 Charleston AFB C-17 aircraft with all necessary support personnel and U.S. Army soldiers from the 2-319th Airborne Field Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division. The exercise was designed to simulate the seizure of a remote airfield. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. James Harper Jr.)

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