Sgt. Chad Carmichael, a native of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., and a flight heath care specialist assigned to Company C, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division out of Fort Riley, Kan., awaits his passengers before conducting a flyover of wildfires burning near the Kalispel Indian Reservation, Wash., Aug 31, 2015. Carmichael, and his fellow aviators, is on standby to provide medical evacuation support for Soldiers assigned to Task Force First Round, out Joint base Lewis-McChord, who are conducting wildland firefighting suppression operations across northeastern Washington.
