Exercise Kiwi Flag provides Pacific partners platform to enhance aerial deliveries [Image 1 of 30]

OHAKEA, NEW ZEALAND

11.14.2013

Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Denise Johnson 

Pacific Air Forces

(Left to right) Royal New Zealand Air Force Pilot Officer Emma Taylor, United States Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Paul Koester and New Zealand Army Staff Sgt. Peter Baker discuss the best route to reach a designated drop zone for a multilateral air drop subject-matter-expert exchange Nov. 14 at the New Zealand Defence Force Raumi Drop Zone near Ohakea, New Zealand. The group is conferring on air-drop recoveries during the multilateral RNZAF-sponsored tactical airlift exercise comprising air assets from the U.S. Air Force, RNZAF, Royal Australian Air Force, Republic Of Singapore Armed Forces and French Armed Forces of New Caledonia. New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and United States armed forces personnel contributed to this subject matter exchange comprising more than 20 of the multinationals participating in Exercise Kiwi Flag. Taylor, an air warfare officer, is assigned to 40 Squadron, RNZAF Base Ohakea. Koester is deployed as the 517th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron jumpmaster. He is the pararescue functional manager at home station, Pacific Air Forces Headquarters at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. He hails from Colorado Springs, Colo. Baker is from 5th Movements Company out of Linton Military Camp in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Kiwi Flag personnel are supporting Exercise Southern Katipo - held on New Zealand's South Island - by managing air operations and providing cargo and passenger airlift including tactical air drops to SK participants. SK hosts nine countries involved in air, land and maritime operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Denise Johnson/Released)

• Date Taken: 11.14.2013
• Date Posted: 11.22.2013 20:05
• Photo ID: 1058954
• VIRIN: 131114-F-FB147-697
• Resolution: 3216x2136
• Size: 852.16 KB
• Location: OHAKEA, NZ
• Hometown: COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, US