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Reforger 78 shows the "Flying Bridge" of a C-5 aircraft from MAC/Military Air Transport Command. The source of information comes from observing that reforger operation from loading at Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs thru Goose Bay, Labrador to Frankfort, Germany. Operation Reforger 78 (Return of forces to Germany) encompassed the movement of a staggering amount of personnel, equipment, and supplies form airfields in the U. S. to Germany in compliance with our commitment to our NATO ally. No one place of arrival or departure was as visually or emotionally significant as the dwarfing of man under the logistical load - his relationship to a technical nightmare, taken so much for granted by those of us in "the star war" age. Hence, the stripping of this work to it basics man and robot machine and the struggle to test if freeman is able to prevail against a philosophy where man and robot are now one. For those who love statistics, the plane depicted carries a fuel load of 318,000 pounds, better by 1,000 pounds over the total weight; i.e..; plane, fuel and payload of the C-141 in the background.