A reconnaissance team braces against the blast of rotor wash from a CH-53E Sea Stallion.
A U.S. Marine Corps reconnaissance team braces against the blast of rotor wash from a CH-53E Sea Stallion as the helicopter lifts off from the desert floor of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., on Jan. 19, 1998. The Sea Stallion inserted the recon team from 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, as part of the Combined Arms Exercise 3-98.