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Caption:
Lance Cpl. Chelsee A. Rattray (left), landing support specialist, and
Cpl. Damon Robertson (right), heavy equipment operator, blocks their
faces from the wind while ensuring their teammates on a decommissioned
Assault Amphibious Vehicle properly hook up the vehicle for an external
movement. The vehicle was externally lifted Jan. 9 by a CH-53E Super
Stallion from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 166 (reinforced),
Marine Aircraft Group 16, and moved from Al Asad, Iraq to an off-base
aerial firing range used by elements of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.
Rattray, a 24-year-old Sunnyside, Wash., native, and Robertson, a
27-year-old San Francisco native, had to brave hurricane force winds to
help properly hook up the vehicle to the helicopter. The Marines are
called a helicopter support team and are all part of Combat Service
Support Battalion 7, 1st Force Service Support Group.
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