An Alaska Air National Guardsman straps Alexander Kendr, a Soviet defector, into his seat in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Kendr and a companion, Anatoly Kachenko, forged documents which enabled the two men to join other journalist covering ceremonies for the arrival of the joint Soviet-American Bering Bridge Expedition in Little Diomede. By attending the event, they were able to seek out an Alaska National Guardsman and request asylum in the United States