A combat controller team from the 720th Special Tactics Group exits a C-130 Hercules during a high-altitude, high-opening jump during Joint Exercise Flintlock Feb. 28, 2014, over northeastern Niger. Flintlock is an annual, African-led, military exercise focused on security, counter-terrorism and military humanitarian support to outlying areas hosted each year by a different government in western Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo/Tech. Sgt. Eugene Crist)