Paratroopers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division and six NATO nations established and expanded a lodgment after conducting an airborne joint forcible entry exercise on Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 27. 2015. 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 - Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States - will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, and Roman


Paratroopers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division and six NATO nations established and expanded a lodgment after conducting an airborne joint forcible entry exercise on Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 27. 2015. 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 - Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, 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. ( Army photo by Sgt. Juan F. Jimenez/Released)


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