Wednesday I went out and trained with the PJ's. They deploy to xxxxxx in xxxxxxx and while the are some of the most highly trained operators in service they still need help from civilians to train.

We met up at 9:30am and went out the malamute drop zone on Fort Richardson. Us civilians (mostly Alaska Mountain Rescue) and the two PJ survival instructors had to be an hour on scene before we could get the jump zone opened.

Due to security concerns I can't say what happened over the next 3 hours but I can sum it up: We set up a xxxxxxx that was hit with xxxxxx. We had seven PJ's jump in and deal with the wounded and the op-force xxxxxx. Security concerns also prevent me from publishing any of the photos I took of all of us in quasi-xxxxxx action. The idea is that they don't want photos of the operators showing up anywhere or anything about what they do or how they do it. So I don't get to publish any photos. Come over to my place (please call first) and I can show you them, but if that's your only reason for coming over for a cup of coffee you will be disappointed.

It was about 20 degrees and some of the "wounded" who were Firemen from Elmendorf AFB were very cold. They had some borrowed gear from the PJ's but not proper footwear. It started clear with some patch fog, but as the morning went on clouds started moving in at about 8,000 ft as the 130 flew in with the PJ's for there jump. By the time were driving off the range it was starting to snow.