Sgt. 1st Class Chris Richards of the Connecticut National Guard prepares to climb atop a 12,000-pound beached buoy, Tuesday, May 9 2017, near Chatham, Massachusetts. He attached the hoisting slings to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter which lifted the buoy from the beach.

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