OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM -- A soldier boards a C-17 Globemaster III. Nearly 1,000 "Sky Soldiers" of the 173rd Airborne Brigade parachuted from C-17s into the Kurdish-controlled area of northern Iraq. This was the first combat insertion of paratroopers using a C-17. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Isaac G. L. Freeman)
