Staff Sgt. CS Muncy Training Photographs submission for Air Force Media Constest

Photo By Staff Sgt. Christopher Muncy | The "Front Porch" floatation device is unfolded and inflated by Pararescuemen and Combat Rescue Officers from the 103rd Rescue Squadron of the New York Air National Guard following a jump from the back of a C-17 in the waters off Marine Corps Base Hawaii on March 5 2017. The Airmen were testing an an inflatable device known as the "Front Porch" intended to be mated to the Orion spacecraft, and used to support astronauts who have made a water landing following a flight. (US Air National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher S. Muncy)  

GABRESKI AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE , NEW YORK, UNITED STATES

12.18.2017

Story by Staff Sgt. Christopher Muncy 

New York National Guard

Photographs taken by Staff Sgt. Christopher Muncy, 106th Rescue Wing, New York Air National Guard, during training conducted by the 103rd Rescue Squadron and the 154th Airlift Wing from the Hawaii Air National Guard designed to test NASA’s proposed Orion spacecraft recovery systems conducted during March 2017 off Marine Base Hawaii during the annual Sentry Aloha exercise.

• Date Taken: 12.18.2017
• Date Posted: 12.18.2017 14:33
• Story ID: 259322
• Location: GABRESKI AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE , NEW YORK, US