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Aerial Porters Combat Challenge

MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. – 515th Air Mobility Operations Wing Air Mobility Rodeo 2009 Pacific aerial porters Senior Airman Tito Valdez, 731st Air Mobility Squadron, Osan Air Base, Korea, Staff Sgt. Clifton Robertson, 735th Air Mobility Squadron, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, assemble M-16s during an Aerial Porters Combat Challenge here July 23. The 515th AMOW team is an eight-person group of Airmen who were hand-picked from more than 500 other aerial porters in the Pacific to compete in the Rodeo 2009 competition July 19 to 25 here. Prior to the Rodeo, they trained together at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, for seven weeks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Carolyn Viss)

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