Fleet Protection Group Royal Marines - Lynx Fast Rope
photo category: royal marines
A Fleet Protection Group Royal Marine, armed with a SA80K carbine, fast rope down from a Lynx HMA 8 helicopter from HMS Portland during joint training with the US Navy, February 2009.. When the photo was taken, HMS Portland was part of Combined Task Force 151, conducting counter-piracy operations in the Gulf Of Aden.
(U.S. DoD photo MC3 John K. Hamilton
