"[To be a member of the helitac team] you have to be in top physical shape, but weigh less than, I think it's 150 at that time…"

Bruce Koyiyumptewa

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The helitac team consists of a twenty-member crew. We're considered to be the initial attack. Go through a rigorous, at least the physical type of training. We run so many miles a day to be in top shape. Plus you cannot weigh more than 150 pounds, because of the payload of the helicopter can only take so much of a payload that you cannot, for a twenty-person crew, they can only take like four or five crew members at a time, and so the payload cannot exceed so many tons in order for the helicopter to do that. So therefore you have to be in top physical shape, but weigh less than, I think it's 150 at that time.

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