Alamo Wing supports U.S. Army Southern Command

Senior Airman Joshua Green, 68th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, gives a "thumbs up" to load a Humvee onto an awaiting C-5A Galaxy aircraft Sept. 8, 2016 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. U.S. Army South’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion Soldiers from JBSA-Fort Sam-Houston are taking part in a weeklong emergency deployment exercise at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (U.S. Air Force photo by Benjamin Faske)

Alamo Wing supports U.S. Army Southern Command

Loadmasters from the 68th Airlift Squadron use a K-Loader to move cargo onto a C-5A Galaxy aircraft Sept. 8, 2016 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. U.S. Army South’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion Soldiers from JBSA-Fort Sam-Houston are taking part in a weeklong emergency deployment exercise at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (U.S. Air Force photo by Benjamin Faske)

Alamo Wing supports U.S. Army Southern

Loadmasters from the 68th Airlift Squadron load Humvees along with other equipment onto an awaiting C-5A Galaxy aircraft Sept. 8, 2016 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Soldiers from U.S. Army South’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion Soliders from JBSA-Fort Sam-Houston are taking part in a weeklong emergency deployment exercise at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (U.S. Air Force photo by Benjamin Faske)

Alamo Wing supports U.S. Army Southern Command

Loadmasters Senior Airman Joshua Green, left, and Tech. Sgt. Jason Badder, 68th Airlift Squadron, perform pre-flight inspections on Humvees prior to loading them on a C-5A Galaxy aircraft Sept. 8, 2016 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. U.S. Army South’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion Soliders from JBSA-Fort Sam-Houston are taking part in a weeklong emergency deployment exercise at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (U.S. Air Force photo by Benjamin Faske)

Alamo Wing supports U.S. Army Southern Command

Published Sept. 13, 2016
By Benjamin Faske
433rd Airlift Wing Public Affairs

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas --

The 433rd Airlift Wing provided a lending hand to U.S. Army South’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion soldiers as they geared up for an emergency deployment exercise to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Sept. 8, 2016 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.

“The purpose of this exercise is to test our abilities and contingency response for a strategic airlift movement in support of U.S. Southern Command,” said Lt. Col. Ryan Levesque, U.S. Army South Battalion commander.

Aerial porters with the 74th Aerial Port Squadron weighed and loaded 68,000 pounds of cargo and equipment while loadmasters from the 68th Airlift Squadron secured the loaded Humvees onto an awaiting C-5A Galaxy aircraft. The purpose of the exercise is to test the unit’s ability to mobilize in a 48-hour time period and set up a mobile command post in country.