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    SERE specialist helps train during Pacific Thunder 2012 [Image 6 of 7]

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    A low-angle upward shot through bare winter tree branches shows a military-style helicopter hovering overhead with a person suspended below it on a hoist or rope. The person appears to be wearing a harness with red equipment visible, suggesting a search-and-rescue or hoist training operation. The backlighting from an overcast sky creates strong silhouettes of both the aircraft and the suspended individual.

    SOUTH KOREA

    10.15.2012

    Photo by Staff Sgt. Sara Keller 

    18th Wing

    U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Dane Hatley, a 33rd Rescue Squadron flight engineer, is hoisted into a 33rd RQS HH-60 Pave Hawk as part of a combat search and rescue scenario for Exercise Pacific Thunder 2012 near Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Oct. 15, 2012. Pacific Thunder is an annual two-week exercise that involves the 33rd and 31st RQS from Kadena AB, Japan, and the 25th Fighter Squadron from Osan. These units work together to practice combat search and rescue tactics to prepare for real-world emergency situations.

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    Date Taken: 10.15.2012
    Date Posted: 10.20.2012 05:07
    Photo ID: 763676
    VIRIN: 121010-F-NH180-591
    Resolution: 3184x2120
    Size: 3.74 MB
    Location: KR
    Web Views: 149
    Downloads: 35

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    A military personnel member is photographed from inside an aircraft, looking out over a mountainous landscape with autumn foliage. The individual is wearing tactical gear including a communications headset with boom microphone, ballistic sunglasses, and multicam camouflage uniform. The aerial perspective reveals a valley with forested mountain ridges extending into a hazy horizon.
    Two military personnel in full camouflage gear are positioned low in dense vegetation, appearing to conduct a reconnaissance or surveillance operation. Both individuals have face paint applied and are wearing multicam pattern uniforms, gloves, and boonie hats. The setting appears to be a woodland environment during late autumn or winter, with bare trees visible in the background.
    A person wearing tactical gloves is holding a military-style lensatic compass over a topographic map in an outdoor woodland setting. The individual appears to be performing land navigation, aligning the compass with map features to determine direction or bearing. The setting suggests a field training exercise or wilderness navigation activity.
    A person wearing military-style camouflage clothing and face paint is crouched low in a wooded area with bare deciduous trees, suggesting a late autumn or winter setting. They appear to be handling or manipulating a thin branch or wire with gloved hands. The individual is equipped with tactical gear and has camouflage paint applied to their face, indicating a military training exercise or field operation.
    A close-up portrait of a soldier or military personnel wearing MultiCam camouflage uniform and boonie hat with face paint applied in green and brown tones. The subject is photographed in an outdoor wooded environment with bare trees visible in the background. The image captures tactical field preparation consistent with military training or operational activity.
    A low-angle upward shot through bare winter tree branches shows a military-style helicopter hovering overhead with a person suspended below it on a hoist or rope. The person appears to be wearing a harness with red equipment visible, suggesting a search-and-rescue or hoist training operation. The backlighting from an overcast sky creates strong silhouettes of both the aircraft and the suspended individual.
    A low-angle photograph captures a military helicopter hoist/rescue operation in progress. A crew member wearing a flight helmet and tactical vest is visible in the open side door of what appears to be a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, operating a hoist cable. A person on the ground in camouflage uniform is visible in the foreground, connected to or handling the hoist hook.

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