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Military personnel load hundreds of meals, ready to eat and water onto a CH-47 Chinook helicopter.
U.S. Army Pvt. Raef Hardin (right) and Spc. Jade Harris (second from left) help crew chief Staff Sgt. Brian Ogle (left) load hundreds of meals, ready to eat and water onto a CH-47 Chinook helicopter at Ellington Field, Texas, on Sept. 27, 2005. 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.