U.S. airmen with the 435th Contingency Response Group load Rwanda Defense Force equipment and supplies onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in Kigali, Rwanda, Jan. 17, 2014, in preparation for transport to the Central African Republic. U.S. forces were dispatched to provide airlift assistance to multinational troops in support of an African Union effort to quell violence in the Central African Republic.