Staff Sgt. Blake Landry deploys a Davis Drifter Buoy from a C-130 Hercules April 29, 2011, off the eastern coast of Japan. The C-130 crew dropped seven buoys off the eastern coast of Japan to help Japanese and American scientists monitor ocean currents. Sergeant Landry is a 36th Airlift Squadron loadmaster. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse)