Preparing for departure to the Port of Beaumont, Texas, Spc. Ryan Azevedo, of Sacramento, Calif., Company B, 2nd General Support Aviation, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, makes preflight checks on a main rotor head of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, Fort Hood, Texas, March 19. This will be the last flight until the aircraft reaches Kuwait and deploys into Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.