Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
Army Sgt. Derric Byrd, a sling load technician with Okinawa, Japan, 35th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, sling loads a pallet of water to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at Ishanomki, Japan, April 11. The sling load Byrd and his other soldiers prepared was delivered to residents in some of the most remote areas of the tsunami ravaged areas of Japan. Photo via US Army.
