U.S. Air Force Capt. Lauren Hoyt and 1st Lt. Mark Benischeck, pilots with the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, fly a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft over southern Afghanistan Jan. 25, 2014.
The crew landed at Kandahar Airfield to airlift mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles out of Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom retrograde operations. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Jason Robertson, U.S. Air Force/Released). Original public domain image from Flickr