Air Force airmen load support equipment and rolling stock cargo onto a contracted Boeing 747 airliner at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., July 9, 2018. The airmen are assigned to the New Jersey Air National Guard’s 621st Contingency Response Wing, from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. The South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing is deploying nearly 300 airmen and approximately a dozen F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to the 407th Air Expeditionary Group in Southwest Asia in support of an Air Expeditionary Force rotation. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Megan Floyd