One of my favorite stories about the \"88\"s we had was in February of 2005. We were flying out of Karshi- Khanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan. We started the day loading up 88-1302 with CDS bundles (all water and food). As a crew chief I always liked to help push the loads and help out the loadmasters when we were not busy pre-flighting. Well, CDS drops are nothing special, so none of us thought anything of this cold day at K2. When 1302 returned, the pilot was very happy and excited. He told us about what happened that day, that instead of dropping to U.S. troops (which is very important, and gives you a good feeling) they had dropped to a village in the mountains of Afghanistan. The hard winter had cut this village off from the rest of the world, they had no food and no access to anything. We dropped to them, which helped them get through the winter. It gave me a good feeling to know that I was part of somthing more than just flying troops, or KBR (Kellog, Brown and Root) around. Reuters News was there on the ground, they fly in on a UH-60 I\'m sure and we got some cool pictures from them.
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