Paratroopers huddle to protect a mock casualty from the rotor wash of a landing UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The exercise, conducted at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) in Anchorage, Alaska on February 20th, included U.S. Army Paratroopers with the 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment (Airborne), 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), and 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska.

The Spartans joined soldiers from Golf Company, Detachment 2, 2nd Battalion, 104th General Support Aviation Battalion–JBER to validate their capabilities of medical evacuation.

Watch U.S. Paratroopers jump over Alaska below: