U.S. Army 1st Lt. Matthew Rankin, 2nd Stryker Brigade

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Matthew Rankin, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jin Lee, 15th Medical Operations Squadron, shield thier eyes from a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter during a casualty evacuation scenario at the Joint Pacific Range Complex near Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, as part of Red Flag-Alaska 12-2. Red Flag-Alaska is a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored, joint/coalition, tactical air combat employment exercise which corresponds to the operational capability of participating units. The entire exercise takes place in the Joint Pacific Range Complex over Alaska as well as a portion of Western Canada for a total airspace of more than 67,000 square miles.