Chief Warrant Officer 4 Matthias Quackenbush, standardization instructor pilot with the 142nd Aviation Regiment, New York Army National Guard, provides a safety brief to service members and police officers from Barbados, Netherlands, Guyana, Mexico, Dominican Republic, St. Lucia and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda and St. Kitts and Nevis prior to Fast Rope Insertion and Extraction System (FRIES) training at TRADEWINDS 24 (TW24) in Barbados , May 8, 2024. TW24 is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored, regionally oriented annual exercise and is part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Large Scale Global Exercise 24, a series of all-domain military exercises executed alongside Allies and partners around the globe. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joshua Taeckens)