U.S. Marines with Force Reconnaissance Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers with Reconnaissance Company, Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, participate in helocast training during Exercise Iron Fist on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 22. <br /><br />Helocasting is an airborne technique used by small unit, special operations forces, also practiced extensively by the US Army's light infantry units, to insert into a military area of operations. The small unit is flown, by helicopter, to a maritime insertion point.<br /><br />Iron Fist is an annual, bilateral training exercise between U.S. and Japanese forces that builds their combined ability to conduct amphibious and land-based contingency operations. <br /><br />02;54;19: Interview with U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Brandon Kroll, a reconnaissance Marine with Force Reconnaissance Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division.<br /><br />
