Joint training exercise focuses on personnel recovery during Combat Raider

Staff Sgts. Edward Breen and Michael Pincher, joint terminal attack controllers assigned to the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., write down location coordinates during a joint training exercise at the Powder River Training Complex, Belle Fourche, S.D., Nov. 16, 2016. The training exercise was designed to train both JTACs and aircrew under realistic scenarios that support full spectrum operations against modern threats. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Anania Tekurio/Released)

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Joint training exercise focuses on personnel recovery during Combat Raider

A B-1 bomber demonstrates a show of force during a joint training exercise at the Powder River Training Complex, Belle Fourche, S.D. Nov. 16, 2016. Air Force aviators and joint terminal attack controllers, along with soldiers from the South Dakota National Guard’s Company C, 1st Battalion, 189th Aviation Regiment, simulated rescuing two injured service members in an urban contested environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Anania Tekurio/Released)

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Joint training exercise focuses on personnel recovery during Combat Raider

Aviators from the 28th Bomb Wing, await rescue during a joint training exercise at the Powder River Training Complex, Belle Fourche, S.D. Nov. 16, 2016. The training exercise simulated rescuing two injured service members in an urban contested environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Anania Tekurio/Released)

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Joint training exercise focuses on personnel recovery during Combat Raider

Soldiers from the South Dakota National Guard’s Company C, 1st Battalion, 189th Aviation Regiment, rescue two injured service members during a joint training exercise at the Powder River Training Complex, Belle Fourche, S.D., Nov. 16, 2016. The training exercise was designed to train aircrew under realistic scenarios against modern threats and included fighter, tanker and bomber aircraft from across the U.S. armed forces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Anania Tekurio/Released)

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Joint training exercise focuses on personnel recovery during Combat Raider

Published Nov. 17, 2016
By Senior Airman Anania Tekurio
28th Bomb Wing Public Affairs

ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. -- As Combat Raider continues, participants conducted personnel recovery training Nov. 16, 2016, just north of Belle Fourche, S.D., in the Powder River Training Complex. The event started with a show-of-force by two B-1 Bombers from Ellsworth Air Force Base guided by joint tactical controllers from the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. Once the area was clear, a helicopter from the South Dakota National Guard's 189th Aviation Regiment came to evacuate the simulated causalities.