Air Force Tech. Sgt. Nicholas Waytkus, left, a tactical air control party specialist, and Master Sgt. Wyatt Sorensen, a combat arms instructor, both with Detachment 1, 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron, confer along the Denali Highway, Alaska, while surveying the surrounding area during Operation Agipen 2, Jan. 28, 2023. Agipen 2 was an unsupported, sustained cold-weather operation designed to validate equipment and previous arctic training in austere conditions. During the multi-day training exercise the 3rd ASOS special warfare Airmen conducted a long-distance, overland ski movement t
Air Force Tech. Sgt. Nicholas Waytkus, left, a tactical air control party specialist, and Master Sgt. Wyatt Sorensen, a combat arms instructor, both with Detachment 1, 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron, confer along the Denali Highway, Alaska, while surveying the surrounding area during Operation Agipen 2, Jan. 28, 2023. Agipen 2 was an unsupported, sustained cold-weather operation designed to validate equipment and previous arctic training in austere conditions. During the multi-day training exercise the 3rd ASOS special warfare Airmen conducted a long-distance, overland ski movement that included pulling individual pulk sleds by incorporating cross country skiing and skijoring. Waytkus and Sorensen are from Hudson Falls, , and Glenwood, Minn., respectively.
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