Photos and Captions

Spc. Scott Davis Photo

Soldiers from Company A, Special Troops Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, air-assault into a village in the Jowlzak Valley in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan. Afghan National Police searched the village while Soldiers provided security and conducted key-leader engagements.

Spc. Jason Dorsey Photo

The 1st 178th Infantry Regiment of the Illinois National Guard delivers two humanitarian aid loads to the village of Garmunay in Laghman Province Afghanistan, May 23, 2008. Four kicker-box loads were flown in by a CH-47 Chinook. The purpose of this mission was to conduct a key-leader engagement and deliver humanitarian assistance to the locals of the village as a means of building a stronger relationship to help fight the insurgency.

Sgt. Zachary Mott Photo

A Chinook helicopter loaded with Soldiers from the Iraqi army and Multi-National Division — Baghdad's Company B, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, departs Forward Operating Base War Eagle in northern Adhamiyah, Nov. 17, 2008. The Soldiers were preparing for a mission in the Istaqlal District to disrupt the car bombing threat in northern Baghdad.

Christopher Henson Photo

A CH-47F Chinook helicopter from the Company B "Black Cats," 2nd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, approaches a road in Presidio, Texas, to pick up sandbags, Sept. 22, 2008. The Black Cats are currently supporting flood relief efforts for the town of Presidio by dropping the oversized sandbags on a levee to keep the high waters of the Rio Grande River from flooding the city.

Christopher Henson Photo

A CH-47F Chinook helicopter from the Company B "Black Cats," 2nd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, sling-loads three oversized sandbags on their way to a levee in Presidio, Texas, near the Rio Grande River. The Black Cats are currently assisting the town by dropping the sandbags near a portion of the river that is threatening to overflow.

Sgt. Travis Zielinski Photo

Under the cover of night, Soldiers from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, arrive at Camp Taji, Iraq, May 20, 2008, for their year-long deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Soldiers flew in on a CH-47F Chinook helicopter from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment, Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division.

Sgt. 1st Class Paul Meeker Photo

A Chinook from the Army National Guard hauls sandbags to a Plaquemines Parish levee with a 300-foot breach caused by Hurricane Gustav, Sept. 3, 2008. According to Mike Rossi of the Plaquemines Parish Operations Center, the goal is to drop as many bags as it takes to fill the breach.

Spc. Mary L. Gonzalez Photo

U.S. Army soldiers form a security perimeter as a CH-47 Chinook helicopter takes off immediately after the troops unload for an air assault mission in Bamyan Province, eastern Afghanistan, Nov. 4, 2008.

Spc. Mary L. Gonzalez Photo

Silhouetted by the morning sun, U.S. Army soldiers wait on the flight line at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Nov. 4, 2008. The soldiers are assigned to the 101st Airborne Division's 101st Division Special Troops Battalion. The soldiers are on an air assault mission to a narrow valley in eastern Afghanistan and searched for improvised explosive device–making materials.

Spc. Mary L. Gonzalez Photo

A soldiers with 101st Airborne Division's Company A, 101st Division Special Troops Battalion, is haloed by light shining through a Chinook helicopter's window as he flies out from Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, to air-assault into a narrow valley to search for IED-making materials, Nov. 4, 2008.

Spc. Mary L. Gonzalez Photo

U.S. Army soldiers stand by on a hilltop and watch as two CH-47 Chinook helicopters fly in to take them back to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Nov. 4, 2008.

Spc. Mary L. Gonzalez Photo

U.S. Army soldiers rush into a CH-47 Chinook helicopter as it briefly touches down to take them back to Bagram Air Field after completing an air assault mission in Bamyan province, eastern Afghanistan, Nov. 4, 2008.

Capt. Mindy A. Yu Photo

U.S. Soldiers of the 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion, 25th Infantry Division, perform maintenance on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter parked on the flight line at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Tikrit, Iraq, Feb. 4, 2008.

Boeing photo

Boeing Chinook Programs Vice President Jack Dougherty is joined by (l to r) Group Captain Andy Turner, Chinook commander and base commander of RAF Odiham; Mike Kurth, managing director, Boeing Defence UK; and Group Captain Mark Sibley, Chinook project team leader for the UK Ministry of Defence, as he cuts into a cake to mark the dedication of the Chinook Room at RAF Odiham.

Boeing photo

Donated by Boeing, a plaque honouring those who have received some of the UK’s highest military honours rests on the wall of the Chinook Room at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, England.

Boeing photo

A North Dakota Air National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter drops several one-ton sandbags onto the spillway of the Clausen Springs Dam near Kathryn, N.D., on April 15, 2009. The sandbags will help divert water away from an area of the dam that is being eroded by rising water, which also threatens to flood a local creek.