Probably standard quals, training new pilots and systems operators, getting in that flight time. Guard Units have to cram a lot of training into short time periods, the Federal government has to pay them when they Drill so training can be intense, they tend to make it a full plate they serve you.
I see Guard Units out over our lake doing much the same thing, they run drills calibrating equipment and honing skillz. Sometimes they have county marine units working with them, the helo will wander off, a small boat will zoom over somewhere and drop a person into the water or a device, then the helo finds them/it, stuff like that. I've seen them training for longer than an hour, making exact patterns and repeating.
I try to load up the Dog and go sit out on the lake in the pontoon and watch them, we are easily amused, the Dog and I.
Probably standard quals, training new pilots and systems operators, getting in that flight time. Guard Units have to cram a lot of training into short time periods, the Federal government has to pay them when they Drill so training can be intense, they tend to make it a full plate they serve you.
I see Guard Units out over our lake doing much the same thing, they run drills calibrating equipment and honing skillz. Sometimes they have county marine units working with them, the helo will wander off, a small boat will zoom over somewhere and drop a person into the water or a device, then the helo finds them/it, stuff like that. I've seen them training for longer than an hour, making exact patterns and repeating.
I try to load up the Dog and go sit out on the lake in the pontoon and watch them, we are easily amused, the Dog and I.
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