Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Anna Doo | Joint Force Headquarters - New Mexico National Guard | 10.29.2015
Company C, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation, UH-60 Black Hawk crew consisting of pilots Maj. Daniel Purcell and Capt. Kevin Doo, and crew chiefs Sgt. 1st Class Dennis Cahill and Sgt. Saul Monarez airlift a unique sling load of a baby Pentaceratops dinosaur skull out of the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness Area Oct. 29, 2015. Sgt. Bryan Haworth and Spc. Alonzo Romero, both of 1st Battalion 200th......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Anna Doo | Joint Force Headquarters - New Mexico National Guard | 10.29.2015
Company C, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation, UH-60 Black Hawk crew consisting of pilots Maj. Daniel Purcell and Capt. Kevin Doo, and crew chiefs Sgt. 1st Class Dennis Cahill and Sgt. Saul Monarez airlift a unique sling load of a baby Pentaceratops dinosaur skull out of the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness Area Oct. 29, 2015. Sgt. Bryan Haworth and Spc. Alonzo Romero, both of 1st Battalion 200th......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Anna Doo | Joint Force Headquarters - New Mexico National Guard | 10.29.2015
1st Battalion, 200th Infantrymen Staff Sgt. Jonathon Velarde, right, Sgt. Bryan Haworth and Spc. Alonzo Romero, left, pose for a photograph while they await the airlift of a 4,500-pound baby Pentaceratops skull encased in the plaster block between them. The New Mexico Army National Guard conducted a civil-military community support project Oct. 28-29, assisting the New Mexico Museum of Natural......
Photo by Sgt. John Montoya | Joint Force Headquarters - New Mexico National Guard | 10.28.2015
Soldiers from New Mexico National Guard's 1/200th Infantry Staff Sgt. Gil Marez and Sgt. 1st Class George Bennet clean up the bottle jack lifts which have fallen in the mud and then place them back under the massive fossil on Oct. 28. (Released, Photograph by U.S. Army Sgt. John A Montoya Jr)...
Photo by Sgt. John Montoya | Joint Force Headquarters - New Mexico National Guard | 10.28.2015
Sgt. Gil Marez, an A Company 1/200th Infantry Platoon Sergeant, spends most of his day lifting a fossil weighing approximately 5,500 pounds with short lifts from bottle jacks. (Released, Photograph by U.S. Army Sgt. John A Montoya Jr)...
Photo by Sgt. John Montoya | Joint Force Headquarters - New Mexico National Guard | 10.28.2015
Maj. Ali Dipour, battalion operations officer for the HHC 1/200th Infantry, is placing blocks under the encased pentaceratops fossil in order for bottle jack lifts to be fitted underneath. He works alongside Sgt. Alex Nocello, the HHC 1/200th Infantry Medical Platoon sergeant. These Soldiers along with seven other infantrymen work with volunteers from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History......
Photo by Sgt. John Montoya | Joint Force Headquarters - New Mexico National Guard | 10.28.2015
The Pentaceratops fossil from the Ah-she-sle-pah site was found to be immersed in a pool of water causing the extraction and sling load preparation to be particularly cumbersome for the Soldiers of New Mexico National Guard's 1st Battalion, 200th Infantry. They worked alongside members of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and the Bureau of Land Management for more than nine......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Anna Doo | Joint Force Headquarters - New Mexico National Guard | 10.28.2015
The New Mexico Army National Guard conducted a civil-military community support project Oct. 28-29, assisting the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Aviation, infantry and transportation Soldiers worked to prepare, airlift and transport 65-million-year-old Pentaceratops dinosaur fossils from the Bisti and Ah-Shi-Sle-pah Wilderness Areas to the museum in Albuquerque, N.M.......
