Soldiers from the Fort Benning-based Warrior Training Center teach students sling load operations a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during Army Pathfinder School at Fort Pickett, Va., Aug. 19. The mission of a Pathfinder is to provide technical assistance and advise the ground unit commander on combat assault operations, sling load operations, air movement, airborne operations, and aerial re-supply by fixed and rotary wing aircraft. Pathfinder course comes to Virginia 110819-A--322

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