(From left to right) Philippine Air Force (PAF) 1st Lt. Johnas Acar, 505th Rescue Group helicopter pilot; Air Force Staff Sgt. Derek Spinale, 31st Rescue Squadron pararescueman out of Kadena Air Base, Japan, and native of Boston, Massachusetts; PAF 1st Lt. Jan Delriz Ih, 505th Rescue Group helicopter pilot and Air Force Maj. Geoffrey "Doc" Garst, a Loveland, Colorado native and 31st Rescue Squadron Flight Surgeon assigned to Kadena Air Base, Japan exit an HH-60 Pave Hawk from the 33d Rescue Squadron out of Kadena Air Base, Japan, after a flight at Clark Air Base, Philippines, during


(From left to right) Philippine Air Force (PAF) 1st Lt. Johnas Acar, 505th Rescue Group helicopter pilot; Air Force Staff Sgt. Derek Spinale, 31st Rescue Squadron pararescueman out of Kadena Air Base, Japan, and native of Boston, Massachusetts; PAF 1st Lt. Jan Delriz Ih, 505th Rescue Group helicopter pilot and Air Force Maj. Geoffrey "Doc" Garst, a Loveland, Colorado native and 31st Rescue Squadron Flight Surgeon assigned to Kadena Air Base, Japan exit an HH-60 Pave Hawk from the 33d Rescue Squadron out of Kadena Air Base, Japan, after a flight at Clark Air Base, Philippines, during Exercise Balikatan, May 16, 2018. The PAF pilots joined the aircrew during a mission to observe different types of flight operations as part of the subject matter expert exchanges. Exercise Balikatan, in its 34th iteration, is an annual military training exercise focused on a variety of missions, including humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, counterterrorism and other combined military operations held from May 7 to May 18. ( Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jack Sanders)


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