This year's Northern Strike exercise featured something not done in years past: Humvees dropping from the sky. The 36th Sustainment Brigade, Texas Army National Guard, executed a heavy airdrop at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center in Grayling, Michigan, during Northern Strike 21-2. The exercise enabled the brigade to prepare for its upcoming deployment. For parachute riggers, that meant dropping things like Humvees from the sky. Two C-130 Hercules cargo planes from the Illinois Air Guards 182nd Air Wing flew from its base in Peoria, Illinois, to Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan. From there, the brigades 294th Quartermaster Company prepared two Humvees for the drop. "This is what we live for," said Chief Warrant Officer 2 Vic Valdez, the senior airdrop systems technician for the Texas Army Guard company. "It's something we don't get to do a lot, and to get to do it for this exercise was amazing."
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机译：今年的北方罢工运动在过去几年没有完成的东西：悍马从天空中掉落。 德克萨斯州陆军国民卫队第36届维持旅，在北部罢工中，在雷岭河畔河畔河畔河畔河畔河畔雷岭联合演习中心进行了沉重的空中筹备。 练习使旅使旅为即将到来的部署准备。 对于降落伞的晋级，这意味着从天空中脱掉悍马的东西。 来自伊利诺伊州的两台C-130 Hercules货运飞机182年航空翼飞往伊利诺伊州皮奥里亚的基地，到了密歇根州的Selfrictige Air National Guard Base。 从那里，旅第294季度第294条四分之三的公司为下降准备了两个悍马。 “这就是我们所居住的，”德克萨斯州队长公司的高级AIRDOM SYSTERS TECHNICIAN 2 VIC VALDEZ表示。 “这是我们不做很多事情的事情，并为这场运动做到这一点是惊人的。”
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