 The sound of helicopter rotors beating the air at Masawa Air Base is a rare sound, but a couple helicopter squadrons paid the base a visit to participate in an annual bilateral exercise. We're out here, we're doing mine sweeping operations, and we're also doing deck landing qualifications with the Japanese. Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14. While their main mission involves searching for aquatic mines, they also did something that normally isn't on their flight plan. Today we did boat landings, which is a little out of the ordinary. You just want to make sure you know how to land on the boat, so the pilots got a lot of practice. We got a lot of conning practice. We've gotten a lot of good training out of this, just as far as we've got a lot of young co-pilots. This is their first time doing something overseas, doing something with another country, so everyone's got to see a lot of joint operations that normally we don't get, we don't get that training back at home all the time. So this has been a great experience being halfway around the world and working with another country.