Staff Sgt. Ryan Vanterpool chains down a mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, known as an MRAP, on a C-17 Globemaster III Oct. 2, 2013, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Bagram has become a major hub for retrograde operations out of Afghanistan. The 455th Expeditionary Aerial Port Squadron special handling section pushed 4.2 million pounds of retrograde equipment during the month of September. Vanterpool, a Honolulu, native, is deployed from the 305th Aerial Port Squadron at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Vanterpool is a 455th EAPS aerial porter. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Ben Bloker/Released)