YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Staff Sgt. Charles Kirchen, 36th Airlift Squadron, uploads pallets of boron onto a C-130 Hercules, before departing for Hyakuri Air Base March 19. Japanese forces will use the boron to help stabilization efforts at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. (U.S. Air Force photo/Osakabe Yasuo)