Army Staff Sgt. Erick Rodriguez, a native of San Antonio,

Army Staff Sgt. Erick Rodriguez, a native of San Antonio, Texas, assigned to the 725th Brigade Support Battalion (Airborne),4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, recovers his T-11 advanced tactical parachute after completing an airborne training jump at Malemute Drop Zone, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 22, 2018. The Soldiers of 4/25 belong to the only American airborne brigade in the Pacific and are trained to execute airborne maneuvers in extreme cold weather/high altitude environments in support of combat, training and disaster relief operations. The Soldiers jumped from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III with the 3rd Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)