Army Spc. Dante Santiago, left, and Sgt. Moise Williams of Chemical Reconnaissance Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 127th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division observe an overturned 55 gallon drum marked "toxic" as they conduct a site assessment while reacting to a simulated chemical spill during exercise Swift Response 15 at the Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 28, 2015. The purpose of the exercise is to conduct joint and combined training events in order to evaluate brigade and battalion level


Army Spc. Dante Santiago, left, and Sgt. Moise Williams of Chemical Reconnaissance Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 127th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division observe an overturned 55 gallon drum marked "toxic" as they conduct a site assessment while reacting to a simulated chemical spill during exercise Swift Response 15 at the Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 28, 2015. The purpose of the exercise is to conduct joint and combined training events in order to evaluate brigade and battalion level execution of strategic out-load in conjunction with Allied Partner nations through an intermediate staging base. Swift Response 15 is the Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations- including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States- will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, and Romania, Aug. 17- Sept. 13, 2015. ( Army photo by Staff Sgt. Carol A. Lehman/Released)


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