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 ...

AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy -- 3rd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, Task Force Spearhead, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, provided two UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters in support of ...

Taken on Aug. 15, 2013, the following video shows members of the Iowa Army and Air National Guard “sling loading” a historic U.S. Air Force jet, an A-7K Corsair II, via CH-47F Chinook helicopter. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The virtual reality outside view of Loft Dynamics' Airbus H125 simulator during helicopter sling load 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 ...

The Bell V-280 tiltrotor was recently flown with a new tactical common datalink (TCDL) and completed external sling load sorties. The Bell V-280 tiltrotor recently completed successful external sling ...

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 ...