CRG enables strategic air operations at Qayyarah West
A 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron C-130 is guarded by members of a security forces team and 821st Contingency Response Group Airmen during blackout conditions while being unloaded by aerial porters at Qayyarah West Airfield, Iraq, in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve, Nov. 12, 2016. The 821st CRG is highly-specialized in training and rapidly deploying personnel to quickly open airfields and establish, expand, sustain and coordinate air operations in austere, bare-base conditions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jordan Castelan)

Photo by: Senior Airman Jordan Castelan |  VIRIN: 161112-F-YC884-0071.JPG