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Camp Humphreys, South Korea

U.S. soldiers and civilians walk off a CH-47D Chinook helicopter during an evacuation drill.

U.S. soldiers and civilians walk off a CH-47D Chinook helicopter, belonging to A Company - "Blackcats", 2nd Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, during an evacuation drill at Camp Humphreys, at Pyongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea on Thursday, 27 March 2003. American forces conducted a bi-annual exercise known as Non-combatant Evacuation

Operation (NEO) on Thursday, practicing for the possibility of having to evacuate the 65,000 to 75,000 U.S. citizens in South Korea if war were to break out.

Zamboanga, Philippines

Southern Command Chief Lieutenant General Narciso Abaya (C) and Colonel Douglas Lengenfelder (R), Chief of the Joint Special Operations Task Force, salute at a sunset memorial ceremony at the Southern Command headquarters in the port city of Zamboanga, southern Philippines on 22 February 2003. The ceremony honors the 10 U.S. servicemen who died in the MH-47E Chinook helicopter crash off Dumaguete islands in central Philippines a year earlier.

Clarke Air Base, Philippines

8 February 2003

Staff Sgt Nick McCaskill, 320th Special Tactics Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, jumps into Subic Bay during pararescue training with Republic of Philippine forces recently during Balance Piston 03-5.

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Above: Staff Sgt Nick McCaskill, 320th Special Tactics Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, jumps into Subic Bay during pararescue training with Republic of Philippine forces recently during Balance Piston 03-5. The joint combined exchange training event was aimed at increasing the interoperability of the two nations' armed forces. The pararescuemen jumped from an MH-47 Chinook helicopter flown by the U.S. Army's E Co. 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

Below: Senior Airman Luke Naughton, 320th Special Tactics Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, climbs out of Subic Bay during pararescue training with Philippine forces recently during Balance Piston 03-5.

Senior Airman Luke Naughton, 320th Special Tactics Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, climbs out of Subic Bay during pararescue training with Philippine forces recently during Balance Piston 03-5.

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USA Soccer Team in Korea

	160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment
	"Nightstalkers"

Soldiers push a disassembled U.S. Army MH-47E Chinook in preparation for loading aboard an Air Force C-17 transport aircraft.

Loading a U.S. Army MH-47E Chinook helicopter aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport aircraft for the return trip home.

Removing the forward transmission from a MH-47E Chinook helicopter for air transport.

Above, U.S. Army personnel push an MH-47E Chinook Helicopter onboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 military transport aircraft as they prepare to depart Zamboanga's airport - Edwin Andrews Air Base - in the southern Philippines on Wednesday, 31 July 2002.

Left, U.S. Army soldiers remove the forward transmission from a MH-47E Chinook helicopter to facilitate loading aboard a C-17 transport aircraft.

Below, soldiers carry the refueling probe from an MH-47E to the C-17 aircraft. Today marks the end of a six-month joint counter-terrorism exercise in the southern Philippines aimed at helping the Philippine military wipe out the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group.

Above and below: In March 2002, an MH-47E, from Echo Company, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), stationed in the Republic of Korea and temporarily operating in the Philippines, conducts final system checks before a major training exercise. The exercise will include a Fast Rope Infiltration / Exfiltration System (FRIES) training exercise. FRIES is a method of dropping and picking up special ops groups from a field environment utilizing ropes fastened to the helicopter.

A Chinook crash in the Philippines

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