A Ukrainian machine gunner from the 1st Airmobile Battalion, 79th Air Assault Brigade provides security for fellow soldiers while their BTR armored personnel carrier maneuvers to pick them up during a live-fire section assault exercise at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center on the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, near Yavoriv, Ukraine, on May 29. Yavoriv CTC staff, along with mentors from the Army's 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, led the training for soldiers from the 1-79th during the battalion's rotation through the Yavoriv CTC. The 45th is deployed to Ukraine as pa


A Ukrainian machine gunner from the 1st Airmobile Battalion, 79th Air Assault Brigade provides security for fellow soldiers while their BTR armored personnel carrier maneuvers to pick them up during a live-fire section assault exercise at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center on the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, near Yavoriv, Ukraine, on May 29. Yavoriv CTC staff, along with mentors from the Army's 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, led the training for soldiers from the 1-79th during the battalion's rotation through the Yavoriv CTC. The 45th is deployed to Ukraine as part of the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine, an international coalition dedicated to improving the CTC's capabilities and building professionalism within the Ukrainian army.


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