Pathfinder course comes to Virginia -- August 19, 2011

Soldiers from the Fort Benning-based Warrior Training Center teach students sling load operations a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during U.S. Army Pathfinder School at Fort Pickett, Va., August 19. The mission of a Pathfinder is to provide technical assistance and advise the ground unit commander on combat assault operations, sling load operations, air movement, airborne operations, and aerial re-supply by fixed and rotary wing aircraft.