A Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter crewchief assigned to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) gives a pre-flight briefing to special operations soldiers from Croatia, Poland and Hungary before executing fast rope insertion/exertion system training at Kovachevo, Croatia as part of the Jackal Stone 2009 exercise. The international special operations exercise, co-organized by the Special Operations Battalion of General Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces and the Special Operations Command Europe, is being conducted to enhance the capabilities and interoperability amongs


A Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter crewchief assigned to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) gives a pre-flight briefing to special operations soldiers from Croatia, Poland and Hungary before executing fast rope insertion/exertion system training at Kovachevo, Croatia as part of the Jackal Stone 2009 exercise. The international special operations exercise, co-organized by the Special Operations Battalion of General Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces and the Special Operations Command Europe, is being conducted to enhance the capabilities and interoperability amongst the special operations forces of ten nations participating in the exercise. Pr-flight briefing by EUCOM


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