Air Force 320th Special Tactics Squadron combat controllers and Marine Corps 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion operators exit two Navy HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopters assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron-85 (HSC-85) following their extraction July 13, 2017 from Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland Australia. The team’s establishment of the tactical drop zone served as the first stage to the exercise’s massive tactical (MASS TAC) airdrop of 500 jumpers.

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