Airlift Missions: Airborne Lifeline, Afghanistan: AIRBORNE-LIFELINE01

Every week, men and women who serve at March Air Reserve Base in, Calif., board a C-17 Globemaster IIIcargo jet to fly halfway around the world and airliftwounded and sick military personnel from battlezone bases in Afghanistan. The journey takes them to Bagram Air Base near Kabul, Afghanistan, and then to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, where patients are transferred to a nearby hospital for care. March's medical teams and flight crews, along with the base'sC-17s, are a mainstay of the medical evacuation mission that has carried more than 116,000 wounded from Afghanistan. March Air Reserve Base Technician Sargent Alfred Montes Jr. is assisted by other crew members while preparing the C-17 aircraft to transport wounded warriors at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)

Every week, men and women who serve at March Air  

Reserve Base in, Calif., board a C-17 Globemaster III 

cargo jet to fly halfway around the world and airlift 

wounded and sick military personnel from battlezone  

bases in Afghanistan. The journey takes them to  

Bagram Air Base near Kabul, Afghanistan, and then  

to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, where patients are transferred to a nearby hospital for care. March's  

medical teams and flight crews, along with the base's 

C-17s, are a mainstay of the medical evacuation  

mission that has carried more than 116,000 wounded  

from Afghanistan. March Air Reserve Base Technician  

Sargent Alfred Montes Jr. is assisted by other crew  

members while preparing the C-17 aircraft to transport wounded warriors at Bagram Air Force Base in  

Afghanistan. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)