81 ERQS refuels partners, conducts airlift in Horn of Africa
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Logan Draiss, a loadmaster assigned to the 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, helps load cargo onto an HC-130J Combat King II at an undisclosed location in the Horn of Africa, Sept. 7, 2023. The 81st ERQS is able to rapidly deploy to execute recovery operations to austere airfields and denied territory, exploiting airpower’s attributes of speed, range, precision, tempo, lethality, and adaptability to create right time, right place effects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dhruv Gopinath)