iraqheavylift

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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