Army 1st Lt. Arafat Shawon (left), Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, relays fire mission information to radio telephone operator, Spc. Terrell Avery, as the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, conducts airborne operations on Malamute Drop Zone, June 5, 2013. With C-17 Globemaster aircraft delivering more than 400 soldiers, M119A2 105 mm howitzers, and container delivery systems, Operation Spartan Reach, a three-day mass exercise simulating rapid deployment into a hostile area, is the largest of its kind since the unit's activation in 2005.
<dl><dd>Unit: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Public Affairs</dd>
<dd>DVIDS Tags: 81mm mortar; howitzer; paratroopers; heavy drop; Airborne; C-130 Hercules; 2-377th PFAR; Malamute Drop Zone; 3-509th Inf Regt</dd></dl>
Percy Jones
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