Video by Lance Cpl. Mya Seymour | 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing | 05.08.2025
U.S. Marines with 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion and Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 269 conduct special patrol insertion and extraction training near Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina, May 8, 2025. HMLA-269 conducted a series of training evolutions with 2nd Recon to improve the squadron’s proficiency in providing assault support to Marine Corps ground units.......
Video by Lance Cpl. Mya Seymour | 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing | 05.08.2025
U.S. Marines with 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion and Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 269 conduct special patrol insertion and extraction training near Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina, May 8, 2025. HMLA-269 conducted a series of training evolutions with 2nd Recon to improve the squadron’s proficiency in providing assault support to Marine Corps ground units.......
Video by Cpl. Angel Diaz Montes De Oca | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 07.11.2024
U.S. Marines with the maritime raid force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct special patrol insertion and extraction rigging during a helicopter rope suspension techniques sustainment exercise on Kin Blue Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, July 11, 2024. The exercise sustained the MRF’s HRST proficiency in insert and extract capabilities for the 31st MEU, and included fast rope,......
Video by Chief Petty Officer Jeff Atherton | Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group Two | 04.07.2021
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (April 7, 2020) - Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians assigned to East-coast based EOD mobile units conduct special patrol insertion/extraction (SPIE) training off the coast of Fort Story April 7, 2021. SPIE is used to rapidly insert and/or extract personnel from an area that does not permit a helicopter to land. (U.S. Navy video by Chief Mass Communication......
Video by Cpl. Kallahan Morris | 3d Marine Division | 01.14.2020
U.S. Marines with 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division conduct a special patrol insertion /extraction (SPIE) exercise from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 14, 2020. SPIE rigging techniques are used to rapidly insert and extract Marines when a landing zone is unavailable. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Kallahan Morris)...
Video by Lance Cpl. Moises Rodriguez | AFN Okinawa | 01.14.2020
Marines with 12 Marines hang in the air during a Special Insertion and Extraction training
Video by Lance Cpl. Moises Rodriguez | AFN Okinawa | 01.14.2020
Sgt Weldon dudding describes what he does as a HRST instructor
Video by 1st Lt. Ryan DeBooy | 25th Combat Aviation Brigade | 07.31.2019
25th Infantry Division Lightning Academy cadre and personnel conduct waterborne operations from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter assigned to the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, off the coast of Hawaii, Kaneohe, Hawaii, July 31, 2019. (U.S. Army video by 1st. Lt. Ryan DeBooy)...
