Army Cpt. Laudy Choum, platoon leader of Charlie Company, 898th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, assesses his Soldier's ability to set up up long-range, mobile antenna systems on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Feb. 4, 2023. The retransmitting teams and their equipment were sling-loaded to strategic battlefield locations by a CH-47 Chinook crewed by 1st Battalion, 168th General Support Aviation Regiment (GSAB). The training was the first of its kind to be conducted in the brigade.

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