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