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A Reserve Citizen Airman from the 624th Civil Engineering Squadron gives critical instructions while directing teammates during a live firefighting exercise in Kahului, Maui, Sept. 8, 2024.

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Air Force Reserve drops soldiers over Iraq.

March 2003 - Air Force Reserve drops US Army paratroopers to secure an airfield in northern Iraq: Kurdish militiamen and US special operations troops linked up with more than 1000 US Army paratroopers to secure the area around a strategic air strip, as the first large coalition ground force in northern Iraq began opening another front against Saddam Hussein's regime. Army Rangers, jumped out of low-flying C-17 transport planes under cover of darkness and secured a snow-dusted airfield to bring in supplies and support personnel. The airdrop was one of the biggest paratroop drops in decades.

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