After working with the local ROTC det, this DUSTOFF bird gets ready to head back to the YTC. The eight Lakota's at the YTC will soon be replaced by Black Hawks, as the Lakota's are being transferred to Ft Rucker to be used as primary trainers.
For the third year in a row, the Dustoff unit from the Yakima Training Center brought a Lakota up to work with the CWU ROTC unit to give them experience loading and un-loading litters out of a Medevac.
A frontal view of the UH-72A Lakota from the Yakima Training Center Dustoff unit parked in a field across from the main Central Washington University campus.
This Lakota landed in a field just off-campus to allow a detachment of Army ROTC cadets to get some first-hand experience with battlefield first aid and evacuation.
Two Blackhawks landed in the lawn next to the music building on the CWU campus to bring a four-star General and his staff to the Army ROTC Graduation/Commissioning ceremony.