Air Force Staff Sgt. Asher Wilthew, a tactical air control party specialists with Detachment 1, 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron, dips a piece of bread in a homemade candle made of butter while camping along the Denali Highway, Alaska, during Operation Agipen 2, Jan. 31, 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 b
Air Force Staff Sgt. Asher Wilthew, a tactical air control party specialists with Detachment 1, 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron, dips a piece of bread in a homemade candle made of butter while camping along the Denali Highway, Alaska, during Operation Agipen 2, Jan. 31, 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. Wilthew is from Garrettsville, Ohio.
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