Training with the King Stallion: June 2025 at Quantico

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Samantha Jones, a squadron S-4 officer with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 461, 2nd Marine Airwing, walks and inspects the back of a Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion helicopter at Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico, on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, June 4, 2025. Marines conducts training consisting of loading and unloading ordnance and helicopter medical evacuations to increase mission readiness in the event of an emergency. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Braydon Rogers)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Grant Phillips, a crew chief, left, and Sgt. Wesley Morris, a helicopter mechanic, both with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 461, 2nd Marine Airwing, push a pallet of ordnance onto a forklift at Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico, on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, June 4, 2025. Marines conducts training consisting of loading and unloading ordnance and helicopter medical evacuations to increase mission readiness in the event of an emergency. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Braydon Rogers)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Wesley Morris, a helicopter mechanic with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 461, 2nd Marine Airwing, left, guides Lance Cpl. Jack Bogueperez, an aviation ordinance systems technician with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 26, 2nd MAW, to unload ordinance at Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico, on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, June 4, 2025. Marines conducts training consisting of loading and unloading ordnance and helicopter medical evacuations to increase mission readiness in the event of an emergency. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Braydon Rogers)

A pallet of explosive ordnance is staged in a Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion helicopter at Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico, on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, June 4, 2025. Marines conducts training consisting of loading and unloading ordnance and helicopter medical evacuations to increase mission readiness in the event of an emergency. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Braydon Rogers)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Wesley Morris, a helicopter mechanic with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 461, 2nd Marine Airwing, guides a forklift to unload ordnance at Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico, on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, June 4, 2025. Marines conducts training consisting of loading and unloading ordnance and helicopter medical evacuations to increase mission readiness in the event of an emergency. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Braydon Rogers)