C-17 Globemaster III (left) and C-141 Starlifter from Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, and another C-141 from McCord Air Force Base, Washington, sits on the over crowded ramp at the Libreville International Airport, Gabon, for Operation PHOENIX GAUNTLET. PHOENIX GAUNTLET deployed enabling forces as part of contingency planning to prepare for a possible evacuation of Americans from Zaire, gripped in a civil war