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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      315th Airlift Wing loadmasters coordinate loading of humanitarian cargo onto a Joint Base Charleston C-17 Globemaster III Jan. 13, 2017 at Minneapolis-St. Paul Air Reserve Station, Minnesota.  The 315th AW hauled more than 50,000 pounds in donated meals to Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The cargo will be later delivered to refugees in northern Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Tom Brading)Airmen deliver aid to refugees in northern Iraq
                        
                        
                        Loadmasters from the 315th Airlift Wing load humanitarian cargo onto a C-17 Globemaster III Jan. 13, 2017, at Minneapolis-St. Paul Air Reserve Station, Minn. The 315th AW hauled more than 50,000 pounds in donated meals to Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The cargo will be later delivered to refugees in northern Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Tom Brading)
                
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        934th Airlift Wing Airmen load humanitarian cargo onto a Joint Base Charleston C-17 Globemaster III at Minneapolis-St Paul Air Reserve Station, Minnesota Jan. 13, 2017.  The 315th AW aircrew delivered the cargo to Ramstein Air Base, Germany where is will await delivery into northern Iraq to Kurdish refugees. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Tom Brading)Airmen deliver aid to refugees in northern Iraq
                        
                        
                        Airmen from the 934th Airlift Wing load humanitarian cargo onto a C-17 Globemaster III at Minneapolis-St Paul Air Reserve Station, Minn., Jan. 13, 2017. The 315th AW aircrew delivered the cargo to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, where it will await delivery into northern Iraq to Kurdish refugees. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Tom Brading)
                
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Airmen deliver aid to refugees in northern IraqPublished Jan. 18, 2017
                    
                    By Maj. Wayne Capps
                    
                    
                    315th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
            **RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFNS) --**Reservists from the 315th Airlift Wing delivered humanitarian aid here Jan. 13 while also conducting a multifaceted training mission; the aid is bound for refugee camps in northern Iraq.
“From a big picture stand point, even though the Reserve crews are training to stay proficient, we were able to help Kurdish refugees who were fleeing (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant),” said Master Sgt. Chris Fabel, a 315th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief stationed at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina. 
The humanitarian aid was flown using the Denton Amendment, a State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development program that allows humanitarian supplies to be flown aboard Air Force aircraft on a space available basis. 
According to the Denton cargo application, Global Samaritan Resources, a nonprofit corporation located in Abilene, Texas, donated 35 pallets, containing more than 275,000 dehydrated rice soy casserole meals intended for the refugees.
“Our mission is simple, yet significant; we help people help people,” said Danny Sims, the executive director of Global Samaritan Resources. “It makes me proud as a U.S. citizen to know we are sending food, and proud to know that the U.S. Air Force is delivering it.”
The donated meals, worth approximately $85,000, will feed an estimated 285,000 Kurdish men, women, and children who have fled ISIL-controlled areas and are currently living in refugee camps in northern Iraq. 
The mission was difficult, yet rewarding, according to Tech. Sgt. Brian Farmintino, one of the loadmasters from the 300th Airlift Squadron who was on the mission. 
“Personally, I love flying these types of missions,” Farmintino said. “They really show the flexibility of our wing. We combined a training mission with evaluations and an instructional ride with a real-world humanitarian mission and added an aeromedical evacuation trainer on top of that.”  
The dehydrated food was delivered to Germany by the 315th AW and will be flown later to Iraq, and trucked to Barzani for distribution throughout the refugee camps in that area.
When asked about the importance of helping those in need, Sims said it was the most important and most gratifying part of his life. 
“I believe pretty much everyone wants to help someone else, it’s written in our DNA,” he said. "But regardless, we all understand the beauty of helping people. That is something that transcends our differences and brings us together. It is a beautiful thing.”Ramstein AB 



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