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Video by Airman 1st Class Roslyn Ward

Southern Strike 18 - 111th Aviation Regiment secures CH-47 Chinook

1st Combat Camera Squadron

Oct. 23, 2017 | 2:01

U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to Company B of the 1st Battalion, 111th Aviation Regimentfrom Meridian, Mississippi secure a CH-47 Chinook at the Gulfport Combat Readiness Training Center, Gulfport, Mississippi Oct. 23, 2017. Exercise Southern Strike 18 is a total force, multi-service training exercise hosted by the Mississippi Air National Guard's Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Mississppi, Oct. 23 - Nov. 3, 2017. The SSTK18 exercise emphasizes air-to-air, air-to-ground and special operations forces training opportunities. These events are intergrated into demanding hostile and asymmetric scenarios with actions from specialized ground forces and combat and mobility air forces. (US Air Force video by A1C Roslyn Ward)