The little boat in the foreground is racing in ahead of a massive thunderstorm. They just made the ship fast to the dock as the sky opened up.

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Spy Rigging
A rope designed to be hung from a helicopter to which Marines have been attached for the purpose of inserting them into or extracting them from dense jungle or other places where helicopters can not land.
(synonym)  Sometimes called Dope on a Rope.

I’m on the bottom left, about 200 feet up.

This was definitely a fun way to to pass a day of training on a god forsaken, freezing, rock strewn mess of a beach , but not as much fun as rappelling from a CH-64 Sea Knight.

I confess to being a little nervous my first time up, but that was basically a well warranted lack of confidence in the reliability of the equipment we were using.

Needless to say a catastrophic failure of say….the (already fatigued) D-Clip holding me to the rigging…would have been slightly life changing.
 

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