U.S. Air Force airmen wait to load a simulated aircraft crash victim onto a CV-22 Osprey aircraft for the Emerald Warrior exercise March 7, 2012.

The primary purpose of Emerald Warrior is to exercise special operations components in urban and irregular warfare settings to support combatant commanders in theater campaigns.

Emerald Warrior leverages lessons from Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and other historical lessons to provide better trained and ready forces to combatant commanders.

Photo by USAF Tech. Sgt. Charles Larkin Sr.

All 20 photos of the Emerald Warrior Exercise below