A US Air Force crew member from Charleston, South Carolina, gives a thumbs up during a high altitude drop of Humanitarian Daily Ration (HDR) from their C-17 Globemaster III over Northern Afghanistan on October 18, 2001. The C-17 dropped 42 Triads containing 17,220 HDRs and over 500,000 HDRs have been dropped into Afghanistan since the humanitarian relief effort began. —REUTERS