A search-and-rescue team from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island helped rescue an Army special forces soldier who fell 100 feet during mountaineer training near Mount Rainier on April 11, according to a press release from the base.

The 32-year-old soldier, a member of the Army First Special Forces group, suffered a broken leg in the accident on Pinnacle Peak.

NAS Whidbey Island’s SAR team received a request for assistance from Mount Ranier National Park Service at 10:50 a.m. The team were airborne just after 11:30 and arrived near the injured man’s location around 12:20 p.m.

Once on the scene, the crew inserted its rescue crew members to assist with prepping the man for transport. The SAR team hoisted the injured soldier aboard just before 1 p.m. and flew him and an Army medic at the scene to Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McCord.

Naval Air Station Whidbey Island SAR has conducted nine missions this calendar year, which includes one MEDEVAC, three searches and five rescues.

The Navy SAR unit operates three MH-60S helicopters from NAS Whidbey Island as search and rescue/medical evacuation platforms for the EA-18G aircraft as well as other squadrons and personnel assigned to the installation.