 25th Combat Aviation Brigade helicopters took part in Exercise Kohakai 2014. The Army's ability to land helicopters on Navy ships at sea allows them to support Navy missions through resupply, personnel movement, and medical evacuations. Soldiers also set up a shore-based simulated deployed location on nearby Kauai Island in order to practice the ship-to-shore missions. We want to be able to operate jointly with the Navy so that we can see what we're going to experience. We have to deploy somewhere in the Pacific to know how to launch and recover two Navy ships. It's us and the Navy in direct working relationship, and we're building on these relationships from the bottom at the squad level all the way up through the brigade and into the division level as we interact with their third fleet. The brigade's leadership also said the ability to launch and land helicopters from Navy ships gives them more flexibility in operating along the Pacific's island and coastal environments. Tech Sergeant Michael Jackson, Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii.