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Army Staff Sgt. Anthony Poppick, right, shows Geoff Marshall, a captain with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, different features on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during firefighting training with California's interagency military helicopter program at the state's firefighting academy in Ione, Calif., Aprill 11, 2015. Poppick is a crew chief assigned to the California Army National Guard's Company F, 2nd Battalion, 135th General Support Aviation Battalion.

Army Staff Sgt. Anthony Poppick, right, shows Geoff Marshall, a captain with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, different features on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during firefighting training with California's interagency military helicopter program at the state's firefighting academy in Ione, Calif., Aprill 11, 2015. Poppick is a crew chief assigned to the California Army National Guard's Company F, 2nd Battalion, 135th General Support Aviation Battalion.

Army Staff Sgt. Anthony Poppick, right, shows Geoff Marshall, a captain with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, different features on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during firefighting training with California's interagency military helicopter program at the state's firefighting academy in Ione, Calif., Aprill 11, 2015. Poppick is a crew chief assigned to the California Army National Guard's Company F, 2nd Battalion, 135th General Support Aviation Battalion.

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