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Djibouti Jump Training
U.S. Air Force Senior Airmen Geoffery Koppel and Justin Gielski along with Capt. Matthew Medley, conduct a pre-flight check on an HC-130 Hercules aircraft prior to a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. The training mission included dropping a four-foot cube containing an inflatable, motorized Zodiac boat , the boat engine, fuel and medical equipment, out of the aircraft over the Gulf of Aden at 1,500 feet, followed by a three-man static jump and a three-man high-altitude, low-opening jump. The three men are assigned to the 71st Search and Rescue Squadron.U.S. Air Force Sgt. Robert McGee undergoes a pre-flight check before boarding an HC-130 Hercules aircraft for a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. McGee is a pararescueman assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, which participated in the mission along with the 71st Search and Rescue Squadron. U.S. Air Force pararescuemen conduct pre-flight checks on their parachutes before boarding an HC-130 Hercules aircraft for a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. The men are assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron.U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jeremiah Coomer, dons his parachute before boarding an HC-130 Hercules aircraft for a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. Coomer is assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron.U.S. Air Force pararescuemen from the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron board an HC-130 Hercules aircraft for a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. U.S. Air Force Sgt. Robert McGee checks the parachute of Tech. Sgt. Jeremiah Coomer on board an HC-130 Hercules aircraft during a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. McGee and Coomer are assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron.U.S. Air Force Senior Airmen Geoffery Koppel and Justin Gielski gear up in flight aboard an HC-130 Hercules aircraft during a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. Koppel and Gielski are assigned to the 71st Search and Rescue Squadron.U.S. Air Force Senior Airmen Geoffery Koppel and Justin Gielski check over a rigging alternate method Zodiac (RAMZ) cube before opening the ramp during a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. The mission consisted of dropping the RAMZ, which contains an inflatable, motorized Zodiac boat as well as the boat engine, fuel and medical equipment, out of the aircraft over the Gulf of Aden at 1,500 feet. Koppel and Gielski are assigned to the 71st Search and Rescue Squadron.U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Justin Gielski scans the drop zone from the back ramp of an HC-130 Hercules aircraft during a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. Gielski is a loadmaster assigned to the 71st Search and Rescue Squadron.U.S. Air Force Senior Airmen Geoffery Koppel and Justin Gielski prepare to push a Zodiac boat bundle out the back ramp of an HC-130 Hercules aircraft during a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. Both are loadmasters assigned to the 71st Search and Rescue Squadron. U.S. Air Force Senior Airmen Geoffery Koppel and Justin Gielski prepare to push a Zodiac boat bundle out the back ramp of an HC-130 Hercules aircraft during a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. Both are loadmasters assigned to the 71st Search and Rescue Squadron. U.S. Air Force Senior Airmen Geoffery Koppel and Justin Gielski, loadmasters assigned to the 71st Search and Rescue Squadron out of Moody Air Force Base, Ga., push out a Zodiac boat bundle while in flight during a pararescue training jump aboard an HC-130 aircraft over Djibouti March 13, 2008.A zodiac boat descends with two parachutes after being pushed out of an HC-130 aircraft from the 71st Search and Rescue Squadron during a training mission over the Gulf of Aden March 13, 2008. The mission comprised of dropping the zodiac at 1,500 feet followed by a personnel jump.U.S. Air Force Sgt. Robert McGee and Tech. Sgt. Jeremiah Coomer prepare to jump from an HC-130 Hercules aircraft during a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. The two are assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron.U.S. Air Force pararescuemen assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron prepare to jump from an HC-130 Hercules aircraft during a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. U.S. Air Force pararescuemen assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron prepare to jump from an HC-130 Hercules aircraft during a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. U.S. Air Force Senior Airmen Geoffery Koppel and Justin Gielski retrieve static lines after pararescuemen jumped from an HC-130 Hercules aircraft during a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. Koppel and Gielski are assigned to the 71st Search and Rescue Squadron.U.S. Air Force pararescuemen conduct a parachute training jump from an HC-130 aircraft over Djibouti, Africa, March 13, 2008. The airmen are assigned to the 82nd Search and Rescue Squadron from Moody Air Force Base, Ga.A U.S. Air Force pararescueman from the 82nd Search and Rescue Squadron out of Moody Air Force Base, Ga., parachutes from an HC-130 aircraft from the 71st Search and Rescue Squadron during a training mission over the Gulf of Aden March 13, 2008.
U.S. Air Force Senior Airmen Geoffery Koppel and Justin Gielski along with Capt. Matthew Medley, conduct a pre-flight check on an HC-130 Hercules aircraft prior to a training jump over Djibouti March 13, 2008. The training mission included dropping a four-foot cube containing an inflatable, motorized Zodiac boat , the boat engine, fuel and medical equipment, out of the aircraft over the Gulf of Aden at 1,500 feet, followed by a three-man static jump and a three-man high-altitude, low-opening jump. The three men are assigned to the 71st Search and Rescue Squadron.
U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock