U.S. Special Operation Forces members with U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and Norwegian SOF, conduct RAPIDS infiltrations/exfiltration training with snowmobiles, March 8, 2020, in Northern Norway, using the U.S. Air Force’s CV-22B Osprey, assigned to the 352d Special Operations Wing. RAPIDS is a Special Forces tactic for quickly inserting and removing personnel into and out of an area. The training was conducted to allow the Special Forces allows special forces members to maintain proficiency in the RAPIDS procedures. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Pena)
U.S. Special Operation Forces members with U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and Norwegian SOF, conduct RAPIDS infiltrations/exfiltration training with snowmobiles, March 8, 2020, in Northern Norway, using the U.S. Air Force’s CV-22B Osprey, assigned to the 352d Special Operations Wing. RAPIDS is a Special Forces tactic for quickly inserting and removing personnel into and out of an area. The training was conducted to allow the Special Forces allows special forces members to maintain proficiency in the RAPIDS procedures. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Pena)
U.S. Special Operation Forces members with U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and the Norwegian SOF, conduct RAPIDS infiltrations/exfiltration training with snowmobiles, March 8, 2020, in Northern Norway, using the U.S. Air Force’s CV-22B Osprey, assigned to the 352d Special Operations Wing. RAPIDS is a Special Forces tactic for quickly inserting and removing personnel into and out of an area. The training was conducted to allow the Special Forces allows special forces members to maintain proficiency in the RAPIDS procedures. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Pena)
U.S. Special Forces operators with U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and the Norwegian SOF members, conduct a pre-mission brief on March 8, 2020, in Northern Norway, prior to a RAPIDS infiltrations/exfiltration training. RAPIDS is a Special Forces tactic for quickly inserting and removing personnel into and out of an area. Through this type of training, SOF members across the force maintain proficiency in the RAPIDS procedures. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Pena)
U.S. Special Operation Forces members with U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and Norwegian SOF, conduct RAPIDS infiltrations/exfiltration training with snowmobiles, March 8, 2020, in Northern Norway, using the U.S. Air Force’s CV-22B Osprey, assigned to the 352d Special Operations Wing. RAPIDS is a Special Forces tactic for quickly inserting and removing personnel into and out of an area. The training was conducted to allow the Special Forces allows special forces members to maintain proficiency in the RAPIDS procedures. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Pena)
A special forces soldier assigned to Norwegian SOF, backs his snowmobile into the ramp of a U.S. Air Force CV-22B Osprey assigned to the 352d Special Operation Wing, March 8, 2020, in northern Norway, during a RAPIDS infiltrations/exfiltration training. RAPIDS is a Special Forces tactic for quickly inserting and removing personnel into and out of an area. The training was conducted to allow the Special Forces allows special forces members to maintain proficiency in the RAPIDS procedures. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Pena)
U.S. Special Operation Forces members with U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and Norwegian SOF, conduct RAPIDS infiltrations/exfiltration training with snowmobiles, March 8, 2020, in Northern Norway, using the U.S. Air Force’s CV-22B Osprey, assigned to the 352d Special Operations Wing. RAPIDS is a Special Forces tactic for quickly inserting and removing personnel into and out of an area. The training was conducted to allow the Special Forces allows special forces members to maintain proficiency in the RAPIDS procedures. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Pena)
A U.S. Air Force flight engineer with the 352d Special Operations Wing, guides an operator from U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), onto the ramp of a U.S. Air Force CV-22B Osprey, also assigned to the 352d SOW, March 8, 2020, in northern Norway, during a RAPIDS infiltrations/exfiltration training. RAPIDS is a Special Forces tactic for quickly inserting and removing personnel into and out of an area. Through this type of training, SOF members across the force maintain proficiency in the RAPIDS procedures. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Pena)
A U.S. Air Force flight engineer with the 352d Special Operations Wing, conducts a scanning of obstacles over a landing zone, in Northern Norway, prior to the landing of a CV-22B Osprey, March 8, 2020. The flight was part of a RAPIDS training with the U.S. Army and Norwegian SOF, using the CV-22B Osprey, which included infiltration and exfiltration of snowmobiles. Through these types of trainings special forces members across the force maintain proficiency in the RAPIDS procedures. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Pena)
U. S. Air Forces members assigned to the 352d Special Operations Wing, conduct a refuel operation on the CV-22B Osprey prior to a mission, March 8, 2020, at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Base in Bodo, Norway. The 352d SOW deployed to Norway at the invitation of Norwegian forces in order to enhance warfighter capabilities in challenging arctic and mountainous terrain, within special operations forces and conventional forces and operations. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Pena)
A Norwegian F-16 systems technician (left), shakes hands with a U.S. Air Force flight engineer, (right), assigned to the 352d Special Operations Wing, March 8, 2020, at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Base in Bodo, Norway, after CV22B Osprey refuel operation. The 352d SOW deployed to Norway at the invitation of Norwegian forces in order to enhance warfighter capabilities in challenging arctic and mountainous terrain, within special operations forces and conventional forces and operations. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Pena)
A CV-22B Osprey assigned to the 352nd Special Operations Wing flies over the North Sea during exercise Valiant Liberty, March 4, 2020. The 352nd SOW enhances Agile Combat Employment to conduct long-range infiltration and re-supply of special operations forces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Shanice Williams-Jones)
U.S. Soldiers, assigned to 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), use and fire a M3E1 Multi-Role Anti-Armor Anti-Personnel Weapon System (also known as Carl Gustav recoilless rifle) during a Reconfigurable Virtual Trainer demonstration at the 7th Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr training area, Germany, Feb. 13, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Markus Rauchenberger)
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