Sentry Storm

Posted 18 July 2013

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Photo by SSgt. De-Juan Haley

SrA James Eminger looks on as a container delivery bundle is released from a C-130H Hercules during the Sentry Storm exercise over West Virginia on 18 July 2013. Sentry Storm is a mass casualty exercise involving Army National Guard, Air National Guard, and Army Reserve units from five states as well as state and local agencies. The C-130 aircrew is from the 130th Airlift Wing, the West Virginia Air National Guard unit at Charleston.

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