U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Brandon Emery, with the 21st Airlift Squadron, secures a Rwanda Defense Force vehicle 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.