February 14, 2008
A Soldier attaches a prepared load to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter Sunday at Biggs Army Airfield as part of the slingload phase of Air Assault School, a 10-day course in which several students have been training since Feb. 5. The students who pass this phase as well as a rappelling phase and a 12-mile road march will graduate from the course Friday morning at Noel Field. Photo by Dustin Perry.
Operation Enlist Assist
1-56 ADA assists 40 future Soldiers with basic Army Knowledge
Capt. Pedro Agapay, 1st Bn., 56th ADA
Forty future Soldiers from El Paso and New Mexico got a taste of life in uniform during Operation Enlist Assist, held here Saturday.
Volunteers from three batteries in 1st Battalion, 56th Air Defense Artillery, conducted the event, which was designed to show the recruits different facets of what will be a normal part of their military career.