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An instructor with a sling-load certification course guides U.S. Army soldiers as a load is slung to a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Feb. 12, 2009. The Black Hawk crew is assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade.

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An instructor with a sling-load certification course guides U.S. Army soldiers as a load is slung to a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Feb. 12, 2009. The Black Hawk crew is assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade.

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