Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), depart a bus and walk toward a C-17 transport plane on MK Air Base, Feb. 3. Soldiers with the 2nd BCT were departing for a deployment in Afghanistan and were the first group of soldiers to utilize the Passenger Transit Center at MK Air Base as a transition point on their way in and out of the U.S. Central Command area of operations. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Warren W. Wright Jr., 21st TSC Public Affairs)