FORT HOOD, Texas - A December 2011 report in the Wall Street Journal discussed the growing importance of U.S. military airdropped supplies into combat areas such as Afghanistan. Ensuring supply ...

Moody AFB leverages HH-60W Jolly Green II’s sling load capabilities for Agile Combat Employment. On Aug. 29, 2024, the 347th Operations Support Squadron at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia conducted ...

One of the most difficult aviation evolutions made more difficult: incredible aerial refueling footage showing the extended refueling probe of the CH-53E move significantly from vibration and the ...

The first sling-load mission in the history of the Forward Support Company, 11th Engineer Battalion, was held April 11 during a joint training exercise with the Pathfinder School. The exercise ...

A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook and a HH-60 Black Hawk, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment, Joint Task Force-Bravo, Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, conduct sling load operations in Panama ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – Besides their daily tasks of providing security and transportation for International Security Assistance Force personnel across Kabul, ISAF Joint Command’s movement control team ...

Pilots were able to safety handle real sling loads after the VR training The virtual reality outside view of Loft Dynamics' Airbus H125 simulator during helicopter sling load training ...

U.S. Soldiers, assigned to the 5th Quartermaster Theater Aerial Delivery Company, 39th Transportation Battalion, 16th Sustainment Brigade, conduct a sling load operation at the 7th Army Training ...

Fort Bragg has done something that has never been done in the Army. On March 23, Soldiers of the DeGlopper Air Assault School and the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division joined forces ...

CAMP MOBILE, South Korea — Sling-loading Chinook helicopters to carry supplies to remote areas is a piece of cake, 2nd Infantry Division soldiers here learned last week. As long as you rig them ...