Spc. Salvatore Zappala (left) and Spc. Travis Hayes, both unmanned aircraft systems operators with Company D, 588th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, assemble a Tactical Automatic Landing System in preparation for guiding an RQ-7B Shadow unmanned aircraft in for a landing on a hasty air strip built on a dirt road at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, May 16, 2017. Co. D’s UAS Platoon completed its first ever hasty landing, showing that the brigade’s air reconnaissance systems can move forward in a fight along with the rest of the brigade. The
Spc. Salvatore Zappala (left) and Spc. Travis Hayes, both unmanned aircraft systems operators with Company D, 588th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, assemble a Tactical Automatic Landing System in preparation for guiding an RQ-7B Shadow unmanned aircraft in for a landing on a hasty air strip built on a dirt road at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, May 16, 2017. Co. D’s UAS Platoon completed its first ever hasty landing, showing that the brigade’s air reconnaissance systems can move forward in a fight along with the rest of the brigade. The 3/4 ABCT trains daily under the Army Europe Atlantic Resolve mission to serve as a credible deterrent to aggression against NATO allies and partners in central and eastern Europe.
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