Alaska soldiers won a helicopter on a train

You have heard of snakes on a plane. Here is a hawk on a train.

A HH-60M HH-60M helicopter team of the Alaska National Guard managed an air balance during a medical exercise in special operations at the end of last month. With a delicate two -wheeler landing on the car flat of a train, the crew delivered supplies on a train and picked up a simulated patient.

The skills of the crew of the custody on the touchdown impressed their counterparts in active service during the special forces of the Arctic Medic 2025 operation, a major exercise held in Alaska in February which brought together guard, conventional and special teams of active medical teams, elements of the coastal guard and federal police, as well as civilian medical teams.

“The flight crew that landed on the train was not only good, they were incredible,” said Colonel Manuel Menendez, command surgeon with the command of special North army operations, an active service command. “I look forward to my next trip to Alaska, where I will work with them again soon.”

To withdraw it, the crew had to execute what is called a “ultimate landing”, which the teams use when a helicopter cannot put all its wheels on a landing site at the same time. In a normal landing, a crew would win the two main wheels of Black Hawk and a tail wheel evenly on the platform. But there was no room for the rear wheel on the train.

While the two front wheels of the helicopter – dressed in giant skis for deep snow landing in the Alaska hinterland – settled in the train, the pilots had to fully keep the power on the motors as if they were hovering, with the back of the helicopter in the air.

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The train was stationary for the helicopter landing, but then started to move to continue the simulated evacuation. “After the helicopter’s departure, the train returned to the station while the next medical training took place on board,” said a custody spokesperson in Task & Purpose.

The flight, said the Alaska custody in a press release, was part of an exercise to assess how patients who are chemically or biologically contaminated could be moved to a hospital train. The train soldiers unloaded the helicopter supplies when she was perched on the platform and the staff sergeant. Steven Gildersleeve, a paramedical of intensive care, was hoisted on the train to assess and medically evacuate a simulated patient.

The crew landed on the rail train in Alaska on a track along the Chena river near Fairbanks. The driving crew included the chief adjutant of the pilots 3 JD Miller and the chief adjutant 2 David Berg, chief of the crew. 1st Brad McKenzie and medical class Gildersleeve and SGTS MICHAEL CRANE staff. Berg was in charge of landing while Miller supervised.

“I think that a large part of what we have brought to battle here has been our depth of experience in these conditions in cold weather and our ability to work and coordinate with a multitude of different units,” said Berg. “We really want to push that we are open to business by working with all our training partners to improve our skills and our relationships.”

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