Story by Staff Sgt. Matthew Winstead | United States Army Alaska | 07.15.2011
Late in the day of July 15, four C-17 jet aircraft loaded with a task force commanded led by paratroopers from the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment and additional units from Alaska took off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson for a joint airborne mission to take control of a drop zone in Australia during Talisman Saber 11....