U.S. Air Force Capt. Sheila Carlson talks on the radio in the cockpit of a C-130J Hercules aircraft at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, on May 1, 2008. Carlson is a pilot assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron and deployed from the 115th Airlift Squadron, Channel Island Air National Guard Station, California Air National Guard, Port Hueneme, Calif.