Kings of Air and Ground: 81st ERQS conducts dirt takeoffs and landings
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jonathan Smith, a loadmaster assigned to the 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron looks out the loading ramp of an HC-130J Combat King II as it taxis on an unprepared landing zone at Grand Bara, Djibouti, July 2, 2023. The 81st ERQS is able to rapidly deploy to execute recovery operations to austere airfields and denied territory, exploiting airpower’s attributes of speed, range, precision, tempo, lethality, and adaptability to create right time, right place effects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dhruv Gopinath)