Aviation regiment switches focus from air ops to field training
SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras — Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment get basic familiarization of the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, or HEMTT, Oct. 28 behind the base rappelling station during the wrecker operations portion of a three-day exercise. Soldiers from the 1-228th Aviation Regiment recently turned their focus from helicopter operations to some basic Soldier field training from Oct. 25 to 29. Some of the things taught during the training were: practicing recall procedures, setting up tents, radio communications, convoy operations, combat medicine, vehicle staging, wrecker operations, M-249 light machine gun familiarization and firing the M-249 at the range (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chad Thompson).