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C-17 loadmaster: keeping warfighters supplied.

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On any given day, Staff Sgt. Adrienne Gariglio could load anything, from pallets of plastic spoons to a 100,000-pound tank, into her C-17 Globemaster III.

But people, especially those she helps fly in and out of the war zone, are her most important cargo, she said.

"I love to talk to the troops and make all the (passengers) comfortable," she said. "Whether it is Marines fresh from the war zone, or retired families flying space available, my job is to take care of the people in the back of the plane."

And there are the times when she helps transform her C-17 into an airborne ambulance to transport injured servicemembers out of the war ...

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