The Helmand blog is run by PJHQ and the team from UK Forces Media Ops. The team is located in Northwood in the UK and in Helmand at Camp Bastion and the Task Force Headquarters and works to support the coalition forces together with the other government departments such as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development. Contact Helmand Blog - helmandblog@googlemail.com
Thursday, November 5, 2009
PICTURE of the day: Merlin prepares for Afghan duty
A Female Merlin Pilot prepares to land in the desert of southern California during Exercise Merlin Vortex 09.
The exercise is pre deployment environmental training for the Merlin Force.
It is a 4 month rolling detachment to El Centro, California, designed to give helicopter crews, engineers and support staff experience of working in a "hot and high" envirnoment prior to their deployment to Afghanistan in the Support Helicopter role in late 2009.
Awesome images, who took them?
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