KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii
Reserve Marines of Landing Support Co. and Landing Support Co., Detachment 1, from Savannah, Ga. and San Juan, Puerto Rico respectively, joined with their active duty counterparts and air Marines to take advantage of a unique opportunity to train here this May.
With Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 flying the CH-53 Sea Stallion, the Marines, who are tasked with expeditiously loading and receiving necessary logistics items in overseas operations, loaded lumber and cement on the birds to fulfill their annual training requirements.
What made this training particularly different was that the goods loaded on board were not just flown around in a circle and returned as is often the case when rehearsing these activities, but were dropped off at Camp Paumalu Girl Scout Camp where a joint-service project by the Innovative Readiness Training program is serving to refurbish and improve the camp.