All photos by Justin Connaher
*Note* I'm just being curious here and if any Airborne guys know then shoot me an e-mail. What is the deployment sequence of the flotation gear when fully equipped?
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Paratroopers of the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment
conduct a parachute training and water landing exercise at Big Lake,
Alaska, July 22, 2011. Several hundred troopers from the battalion
trained extensively in preparation for the maneuver, jumped from UH-60
helicopters, staged at a nearby airfield, into Big Lake and were brought
safely to shore by rubber boats. |
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Paratroopers of the 1st Battalion (Airborne) 501st Infantry Regiment
conduct a parachute training and water landing exercise at Big Lake,
Alaska, July 22. Several hundred troopers from the battalion trained
extensively in preparation for the maneuver, jumped from UH-60
helicopters, staged at a nearby airfield, into Big Lake and were brought
safely to shore by rubber boats. |
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Soldiers recover a paratrooper of the 1st Battalion (Airborne) 501st
Infantry Regiment after he conducted a parachute training and water
landing exercise at Big Lake, Alaska, July 22. Several hundred troopers
from the battalion trained extensively in preparation for the maneuver,
jumped from UH-60 helicopters, staged at a nearby airfield, into Big
Lake and were brought safely to shore by rubber boats. |
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Paratrooper Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Clarno of Hillboro, Ore., of the 1st
Battalion (Airborne) 501st Infantry Regiment, swims toward a rubber boat
after conducting a parachute training and water landing exercise at Big
Lake, Alaska, July 22. Several hundred troopers from the battalion
trained extensively in preparation for the maneuver, jumped from UH-60
helicopters, staged at a nearby airfield, into Big Lake and were brought
safely to shore by rubber boats. |
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Paratroopers of the 1st Battalion (Airborne) 501st Infantry Regiment
conduct a parachute training and water landing exercise at Big Lake,
Alaska, July 22. Several hundred troopers from the battalion trained
extensively in preparation for the maneuver, jumped from UH-60
helicopters, staged at a nearby airfield, into Big Lake and were brought
safely to shore by rubber boats. |
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Paratroopers of the 1st Battalion (Airborne) 501st Infantry Regiment
conduct a parachute training and water landing exercise at Big Lake,
Alaska, July 22, 2011. Several hundred troopers from the battalion
trained extensively in preparation for the maneuver, jumped from UH-60
helicopters, staged at a nearby airfield, into Big Lake and were brought
safely to shore by rubber boats. |
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Paratroopers of the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment
conduct a parachute training and water landing exercise at Big Lake,
Alaska, July 22, 2011. Several hundred troopers from the battalion
trained extensively in preparation for the maneuver, jumped from UH-60
helicopters, staged at a nearby airfield, into Big Lake and were brought
safely to shore by rubber boats. |
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Paratrooper Pfc. Robert Lenigan of Star, Idaho, pulls Specialist
Christopher Tenore, left, of Jacksonville, Fla., of the 1st Battalion
(Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment from the water after he conducted a
parachute training and water landing exercise at Big Lake, Alaska, July
22, 2011. Several hundred troopers from the battalion trained
extensively in preparation for the maneuver, jumped from UH-60
helicopters, staged at a nearby airfield, into Big Lake and were brought
safely to shore by rubber boats. |
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A Paratrooper of the 1st Battalion (Airborne) 501st Infantry Regiment
conducts a parachute training and water landing exercise at Big Lake,
Alaska, July 22. Several hundred troopers from the battalion trained
extensively in preparation for the maneuver, jumped from UH-60
helicopters, staged at a nearby airfield, into Big Lake and were brought
safely to shore by rubber boats. |
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A boat races to recover a paratrooper of the 1st Battalion (Airborne)
501st Infantry Regiment after he conducted a parachute training and
water landing exercise at Big Lake, Alaska, July 22. Several hundred
troopers from the battalion trained extensively in preparation for the
maneuver, jumped from UH-60 helicopters, staged at a nearby airfield,
into Big Lake and were brought safely to shore by rubber boats. |
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