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Loadout Room photo of the day: Pathfinders remain vigilant as forces draw down in Afghanistan

January 12, 2018 by Scott Witner Leave a Comment

Loadout Room photo of the day: Pathfinders remain vigilant as forces draw down in Afghanistan

CAMP DAHLKE, AFGHANISTAN

Senior Airman Jesse Waldron, a Grand Rapids, Mich., native who serves as a joint terminal attack controller with the Air Support Operations Squadron out of Fort Drum, N.Y., sets up his satellite communication system on the airfield of Camp Dahlke, Afghanistan, Nov. 8, 2014. He, along with a pathfinder platoon with Fox Company, 2nd Attack Helicopter Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, were staged there to be geographically closer to a coalition operation in case their recovery capabilities were needed.

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Scott Witner is the Editor of The Loadout Room and handles product sourcing for both Crate Club and Cuna Dog. He is a former Marine Corps Infantryman with 2ndBn/8th Marines and was attached to the 24th MEU(SOC) for a 6 month deployment to the Mediterranean. He has completed training in desert warfare at the Marine Air Ground Combat Center, mountain warfare and survival at the Mountain Warfare Training Center and attended the South Korean Mountain Warfare school in Pohang.

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