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Jan 9, 2005

Lance Cpl. Chelsee A. Rattray (left), landing support specialist, and Cpl. Damon Robertson (right), heavy equipment operator, blocks their faces from the wind while ensuring their teammates on a decommissioned Assault Amphibious Vehicle properly hook up the vehicle for an external movement. The vehicle was externally lifted Jan. 9 by a CH-53E Super Stallion from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 166 (reinforced), Marine Aircraft Group 16, and moved from Al Asad, Iraq to an off-base aerial firing range used by elements of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. Rattray, a 24-year-old Sunnyside, Wash., native, and Robertson, a 27-year-old San Francisco native, had to brave hurricane force winds to help properly hook up the vehicle to the helicopter. The Marines are called a helicopter support team and are all part of Combat Service Support Battalion 7, 1st Force Service Support Group.

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