 HST is not going to be short for helicopter support team. It's essentially where we get either a V-22 Osprey or a CH-53 Echo. HST is usually conducted with a safety and HST commander, one hookup, one static man to ground the helicopter, and then either inside or outside director. My role will be the inside director. My job is to make sure that the helicopter goes right above the load and makes it nice and easy. And as I'm doing certain hand motions for the inside director, the outside director will be laying that to the pilot. The point of HST is to quickly get in a piece of gear or to quickly extract something, such as there's a broken down humby. You just swoop right in, pick it up and get it out as fast as possible, or set up a triple seven in a nice position. Hard parts of doing HST at night is that with the helicopter flying in, you can't see the hook, which adds some weight to it, so it'll hurt if it hits. And also, there's a lot of static electricity that's charged up as the motor is turning, so you gotta watch out for us hitting it in the head and getting shocked by the hook.