First responders maneuver their boat into rotor wash

First responders maneuver their boat into rotor wash from a West Virginia Army National Guard UH-60M Blackhawk helicopter assigned to Company C, 1-150th Assault Battalion on the Kanawha River during a joint-agency swift water search and rescue operations training exercise led by the WVNG’s Army Interagency Training and Education Center (AITEC), Nov. 15, 2019, in Dunbar, W.Va. More than 150 first responders from 22 local and federal agencies participated in the day-long, full-scale exercise gaining valuable experience in swift water search and rescue operations, dive recovery operations, and aeromedical evacuation hoist operations. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston)