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Airmen perform fast-rope insertion and extraction system training from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 21, 2015. The airmen are assigned to the New Jersey Air National Guard's 227th Air Support Operations Squadron and the helicopter crew is assigned to the New Jersey National Guard's 1st Battalion, 150th Assault Helicopter Battalion. The airmen were recertified on FRIES training by soldiers assigned to the Maryland Army National Guard's Long Range Surveillance Company C, 1st Battalion, 158th Cavalry. FRIES is used when a fast exit from a rotary-wing aircraft into a restricted area, including water operations, is required. It provides a method for inserting and extracting special operations forces when an aircraft cannot land.

Airmen perform fast-rope insertion and extraction system training from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 21, 2015. The airmen are assigned to the New Jersey Air National Guard's 227th Air Support Operations Squadron and the helicopter crew is assigned to the New Jersey National Guard's 1st Battalion, 150th Assault Helicopter Battalion. The airmen were recertified on FRIES training by soldiers assigned to the Maryland Army National Guard's Long Range Surveillance Company C, 1st Battalion, 158th Cavalry. FRIES is used when a fast exit from a rotary-wing aircraft into a restricted area, including water operations, is required. It provides a method for inserting and extracting special operations forces when an aircraft cannot land.

Airmen perform fast-rope insertion and extraction system training from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 21, 2015. The airmen are assigned to the New Jersey Air National Guard's 227th Air Support Operations Squadron and the helicopter crew is assigned to the New Jersey National Guard's 1st Battalion, 150th Assault Helicopter Battalion. The airmen were recertified on FRIES training by soldiers assigned to the Maryland Army National Guard's Long Range Surveillance Company C, 1st Battalion, 158th Cavalry. FRIES is used when a fast exit from a rotary-wing aircraft into a restricted area, including water operations, is required. It provides a method for inserting and extracting special operations forces when an aircraft cannot land.

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