Duke reservists deliver warriors for combat exercise

A 23rd Special Tactics Training Squadron student drifts down to the ground after jumping from a MC-130E Combat Talon I during a recent two-day exercise at Duke Field Fla. The aircrew of reservists delivered approximately six Hurlburt Field Airmen and their equipment to their coordinates to begin the exercise. The exercise provided counter-insurgency tactics, land navigation and mission planning to potential Air Force combat controllers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Cheryl Foster)

Duke reservists deliver warriors for combat exercise

Students with the 23rd Special Tactics Training Squadron, trail out of a MC-130E Combat Talon I after jumping from the aircraft during a recent two-day exercise at Duke Field Fla. The aircrew of reservists delivered approximately six Hurlburt Field Airmen and their equipment to their coordinates to begin the exercise. The exercise provided counter-insurgency tactics, land navigation and mission planning to potential Air Force combat controllers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Cheryl Foster)

Duke reservists deliver warriors for combat exercise

Senior Airman Donald McNaron, a loadmaster with the 711th Special Operations Wing, prepares the tracks on the back of a MC-130E Combat Talon during a recent jump mission as part of a two-day 23rd Special Tactics Training Squadron exercise at Duke Field, Fla. The aircrew of reservists delivered approximately six Hurlburt Field Airmen and their equipment to their coordinates to begin the exercise. The exercise provided counter-insurgency tactics, land navigation and mission planning to potential Air Force combat controllers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Cheryl Foster)

Duke reservists deliver warriors for combat exercise

A student with the 23rd Special Tactics Training Squadron, prepares his weapons on a Humvee before it's loaded on to a MC-130E Combat Talon during a recent mission as part of a two-day exercise at Duke Field, Fla. The aircrew of reservists delivered approximately six Hurlburt Field Airmen and their equipment to their coordinates to begin the exercise. The exercise provided counter-insurgency tactics, land navigation and mission planning to potential Air Force combat controllers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Cheryl Foster)

Duke reservists deliver warriors for combat exercise

A student with the 23rd Special Tactics Training Squadron, waits for the word to go before leaping from a MC-130E Combat Talon I from the 919th Special Operations Wing during a recent mission as part of a two-day exercise at Duke Field, Fla. The aircrew of reservists delivered approximately six Hurlburt Field Airmen and their equipment to their coordinates to begin the exercise. The exercise provided counter-insurgency tactics, land navigation and mission planning to potential Air Force combat controllers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Cheryl Foster)

Duke reservists deliver warriors for combat exercise

Students with the 23rd Special Tactics Training Squadron, leap from a MC-130E Combat Talon I from the 919th Special Operations Wing during a recent mission as part of a two-day exercise at Duke Field, Fla. The aircrew of reservists delivered approximately six Hurlburt Field Airmen and their equipment to their coordinates to begin the exercise. The exercise provided counter-insurgency tactics, land navigation and mission planning to potential Air Force combat controllers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Cheryl Foster)