35th CSSB conducts sling load training

Photo By Kevin Krejcarek | Crewmembers of a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter from U.S. Army Aviation Battalion Japan based at Camp Zama, drop the cable after delivering a cargo container at Sagami Depot, Japan, April 24. The sling load training was the first time in six years Soldiers from the 35th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion conducted this operation.  

SAGAMI DEPOT, KANAGAWA, JAPAN

04.24.2015

Story by Kevin Krejcarek 

U.S. Army Japan

SAGAMI DEPOT, Japan – Soldiers of the 35th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion conducted sling load training here April 24 while Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members observed the operation.

The Soldiers practiced four delivery and four removal operations of a container with U.S. Army Aviation Battalion Japan crewmembers in their UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter based at Camp Zama.

This was the first time the 35th CSSB has conducted a sling load operation in six years which provided invaluable training to its new members and increased proficiency with those who have worked this operation before during their careers.

Member of the JGSDF from the Central Readiness Force at Camp Zama and Middle Army members from Camp Asaka were able to view the Army airborne operations.

First Lt. Randolph Capocasale, a plans officer with the 35th CSSB was in charge of the sling load operations.

“Demonstrating the capabilities of a sling load and that it can be done safely and effectively builds trust,” he said.

The U.S. Army could easily be called on to conduct an operation with our bilateral JGSDF partners requiring sling loads such as in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

• Date Taken: 04.24.2015
• Date Posted: 04.27.2015 21:08
• Story ID: 161459
• Location: SAGAMI DEPOT, KANAGAWA, JP