Army Aviation

40th CAB Practices Night Sling Load Movements in Kuwait

slingload3Soldiers from 526th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) helped to guide pilots from the 40th Combat Aviation Brigade into place to sling load a shipping container to their Chinook helicopter on August 11, 2016 at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. Sling load operations allow U.S. Army Central to move artillery and trucks for mobile operations in the Middle East. (Photos were taken by Sgt. Brandon Hubbard).

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