Dale Alter, left, State of Alaska Regional Aviation Officer, briefs soldiers from B Company, 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, Alaska Army National Guard, as they prepare to airlift the U.S. Forest Service’s Lassen Interagency Hotshot Crew of Susanville, Calif., June 28, 2013. The 21-member IHC crew was transported by UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters some 100 miles northeast, near the vicinity of the Susitna River and Wantana Creek, to relieve Bureau of Land Management smoke jumpers already on-scene.