Air Force Tech. Sgt. Nicholas Waytkus, left, and Staff Sgt. Benjamin Leavitt, both tactical air control party specialists with Detachment 1, 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron, share a moment of levity before stopping to make camp along the Denali Highway, Alaska, 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 pull
Air Force Tech. Sgt. Nicholas Waytkus, left, and Staff Sgt. Benjamin Leavitt, both tactical air control party specialists with Detachment 1, 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron, share a moment of levity before stopping to make camp along the Denali Highway, Alaska, 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 Leavitt are from Hudson Falls, , and Yelm, Wash., respectively.
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