Photo Of The Day and we’re taken into action around the exercise called Hanuman Guardian 22: Air Assault Training. I love this drone-styled image of an M240B machine gun crew from the Alpha Company, 29th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division. They’re engaging simulated targets during an air assault, in March 2022, in Fort Thanarat, Thailand. If I was gunning the M240B I’d be hoping for more ammunition and waves of simulated targets. If I was carrying or cleaning it, I’d be hoping I was on R&R…
Below you see two U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawks, assigned to the 2nd Assault Helicopter Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, as they take off for an air assault at Fort Thanarat, Thailand. Air assaults allow troops to rapidly insert near an objective and utilize the element of surprise during the attack.
An M240B machine gun crew, Alpha Company, 29th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, engages simulated targets during an air assault
A Bangalore torpedo detonates, clearing an objective for forces to move through to assault their final objective, Mar. 22, 2022, Fort Thanarat, Thailand. Air Assaults allow troops to rapidly insert near an objective and utilize the element of surprise during the attack.
Did you ever fire a Bangalore torpedo in your life?
A U.S. Army Soldier from Alpha Company, 29th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, observes an objective during an air assault
Images and captions: U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael Mason.
