Members of Company G, 3rd Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, Maine Army National Guard, spent the last two weeks taking part in Northern Strike, a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting about 5,000 servicemembers from 13 states and five coalition countries at Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center in northern Michigan. This time, the Soldiers from Company G played a different role than they typically do in training, giving some of the newer members of a team a chance to test their skills in higher pressure situations. For these situations, one of the most important parts of th
Members of Company G, 3rd Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, Maine Army National Guard, spent the last two weeks taking part in Northern Strike, a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting about 5,000 servicemembers from 13 states and five coalition countries at Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center in northern Michigan. This time, the Soldiers from Company G played a different role than they typically do in training, giving some of the newer members of a team a chance to test their skills in higher pressure situations. For these situations, one of the most important parts of their morning routine was for the incoming on-duty crew chiefs and pilots to check over the entire aircraft and start it up to check for any issues that would cause a delay in services rendered during a medevac mission. (Maine Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Angela Parady.)
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