03/28/2014: Medevac does not stop for snow as Spc. Jimmy Rop, top, and Spc. James Verlander, UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew chiefs with Company C, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, prepare to de-ice this helicopter after a snowfall at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 8, 2014.
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Credit:Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division:1/8/14
- In photo 2, two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters assigned to 1st Platoon, C Company, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade land on the flight line after a medevac mission on Forward Operating Base Warrior, Ghazni province, Afghanistan, July 1, 2012
- In photos 3 and 4, U.S. soldiers serving with 1st Platoon, C Company, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, and C Company, 307th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division treat a wounded Afghan National Police officer on Forward Operating Base Warrior, Ghazni province, Afghanistan, July 1, 2012. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Claire Bake).
- In the final photo, U.S. soldiers serving with 1st Platoon, C Company, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, and C Company, 307th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division sprint to unload the wounded from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on Forward Operating Base Warrior, Ghazni province, Afghanistan, July 1, 2012. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Claire Baker)