101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) conduct air assault training at JRTC [Image 13 of 16]

FORT POLK, LA, UNITED STATES

08.15.2014

Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Mary Rose Mittlesteadt 

101st Division Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs

Infantry Soldiers with the 1st Brigade Combat Team (Bastogne), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), race toward a Black Hawk helicopter in complete black-out conditions, in the dark of the night, to air assault into an objective during a training exercise at the premiere Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk, La., Aug. 15, 2014. Air Assault capability enhances a commanders ability to insert troops and equipment in a hasty manner into any location in the world. As part of a training scenario, Soldiers travel into a given objective to conduct multiple training events that are provided to stimulate U.S. Army Soldier skills. JRTC provides Soldiers the ability to test and validate their skills in an expeditionary and interdependent environment. The Air Assault Soldiers are not only honing their abilities to insert themselves into key locations through the use of air assault capabilities, but they are able to increase their level of confidence in working within a complex operating environment that involves the intermingling of conventional and irregular forces, criminals and refuges. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Mary Rose Mittlesteadt)

• Date Taken: 08.15.2014
• Date Posted: 09.05.2014 09:55
• Photo ID: 1535885
• VIRIN: 140815-A-KO462-613
• Resolution: 2444x1374
• Size: 1.54 MB
• Location: FORT POLK, LA, US
• Hometown: FORT CAMPBELL, KY, US