German air force C160 "Transall" and Dutch C130 transport paratroopers and equipment in support of Exercise Swift Response 15 to Hohenfels from Saarbrücken Airport, Aug. 27, 2015. Within two days approximately 180 tons of equipment were transported in several waves to the landing zone at Hohenfels. 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 Uni
German air force C160 "Transall" and Dutch C130 transport paratroopers and equipment in support of Exercise Swift Response 15 to Hohenfels from Saarbrücken Airport, Aug. 27, 2015. Within two days approximately 180 tons of equipment were transported in several waves to the landing zone at Hohenfels. 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. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple Allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deploy and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. To learn more about Swift Response,visit the Army Europe homepage at ( Army photo by Erich Backes/released)
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