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Left to right: Air Force Capts. Jeffrey Hansen and Paul Spendley, Maj. Joshua Lang and Tech Sgt. David Santiago receive a CH-47 Chinook helicopter pre-flight safety brief on Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, N.Y., March 14, 2015, before conducting helicopter familiarization training on Fort Drum, N.Y. The airmen are assigned to the New York National Guard's 274th Air Support Operations Squadron.

Left to right: Air Force Capts. Jeffrey Hansen and Paul Spendley, Maj. Joshua Lang and Tech Sgt. David Santiago receive a CH-47 Chinook helicopter pre-flight safety brief on Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, N.Y., March 14, 2015, before conducting helicopter familiarization training on Fort Drum, N.Y. The airmen are assigned to the New York National Guard's 274th Air Support Operations Squadron.

Left to right: Air Force Capts. Jeffrey Hansen and Paul Spendley, Maj. Joshua Lang and Tech Sgt. David Santiago receive a CH-47 Chinook helicopter pre-flight safety brief on Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, N.Y., March 14, 2015, before conducting helicopter familiarization training on Fort Drum, N.Y. The airmen are assigned to the New York National Guard's 274th Air Support Operations Squadron.

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