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A soldier looks over a debris-strewn field from the back of a low-flying open helicopter.

Arriving to Help

Army Staff Sgt. Derick Bauman, a flight engineer assigned to the Ohio Army National Guard’s Company B, 2nd Battalion, 238th Aviation Regiment, watches for obstacles from the rear ramp of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter while landing in a field to distribute food, water and other supplies to communities in western North Carolina Oct. 4, 2024, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

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