A Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter receives an aerial refueling from a MC-130E aircraft during Emerald Warrior, Duke Field, Fla., March 6, 2012. The primary purpose of Emerald Warrior is to exercise special operations components in urban and irregular warfare settings to support combatant commanders in theater campaigns. Emerald Warrior leverages lessons from Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and other historical lessons to provide better trained and ready forces to combatant commanders.


A Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter receives an aerial refueling from a MC-130E aircraft during Emerald Warrior, Duke Field, Fla., March 6, 2012. The primary purpose of Emerald Warrior is to exercise special operations components in urban and irregular warfare settings to support combatant commanders in theater campaigns. Emerald Warrior leverages lessons from Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and other historical lessons to provide better trained and ready forces to combatant commanders.


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