A knife lies on the ground after Staff Sgt. Levi Wood, a survival, evasion, resistance and escape instructor assigned to the 353rd Combat Training Squadron, used it to show visiting Japan Air Self-Defense Force airmen how to safely split bamboo to start a fire Feb. 16, 2016, at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Exercise Cope North 16 includes 22 total flying units and nearly 3,000 personnel from six countries and continues the growth of strong, interoperable and beneficial relationships within the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region through integration of airborne and land-based command and control assets.


A knife lies on the ground after Staff Sgt. Levi Wood, a survival, evasion, resistance and escape instructor assigned to the 353rd Combat Training Squadron, used it to show visiting Japan Air Self-Defense Force airmen how to safely split bamboo to start a fire Feb. 16, 2016, at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Exercise Cope North 16 includes 22 total flying units and nearly 3,000 personnel from six countries and continues the growth of strong, interoperable and beneficial relationships within the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region through integration of airborne and land-based command and control assets. ( Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alexander W. Riedel/Released)


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