U.S. Army Sgt. Steven Giersch unloads meals, ready to eat from a UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter in Deweyville, Texas, on Sept. 26, 2005. Three Black Hawks delivered six pallets of relief aid during this mission. Department of Defense units are mobilized as part of Joint Task Force Rita to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster-relief efforts in the Gulf Coast areas devastated by Hurricane Rita. Giersch is assigned to A Company, 1st Battalion, 106th Aviation Regiment, Illinois Air National Guard.