Angel Thunder 2015: High Angle Rescue
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andy Craig, a reserve survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialist, teaches U.S. Marines Corps Cpls. Dave and Dan Peete, reconnaissance man, about football knots during Angel Thunder 2015 high angle rescue training at Mount Lemmon, Ariz., June 1, 2015. During the training, U.S. Marines and U.S. Airmen practiced tying knots, anchoring ropes, rappelling down a cliffside unassisted, and returning to the initial elevation point. Angel Thunder is an Air Combat Command-sponsored personnel recovery exercise for combat air force, joint, allied and interagency participants. Craig is assigned to the 304th Rescue Squadron at Portland Air National Guard Base, Ore., and the Peetes’ are assigned to Force Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Betty R. Chevalier/Released)