Filing out to a Helo at LZ Argonaut
Staff Sergeant Kristopher J. Battles, USMCR
Acquisition Number: 2010.57.3
Medium: Oil on Watercolor Paper

A column of Marines lug their packs out to the landing zone where a Sikorsky CH-35E Super Sea Stallion heavy lift transport helicopter waits for them. Nearby trees bend and whip in the rotor wash. Personnel from the 22d and 24th Marine Expeditionary Units were deployed to Haiti in 2010 as part of Operation Unified Response to provide assistance after an earthquake devastated the island nation. The military response included 10,000 sailors and Marines