Keen Sword Exercise
Senior Airman Jeremy Garrett, a flight engineer with the 33rd Rescue Squadron, lowers a stokes down into the waiting hands of the pararescuemen below during the Keen Sword exercise here at Kadena Air Base, Dec. 6. Keen Sword 2011 will include an estimated 10,500 U.S. participants from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. Significant training events during Keen Sword 2011 will include integrated air and missile defense, base security and force protection, search and rescue, close air support, live-fire training, and maritime defense and interdiction. ( U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Lakisha A. Croley)