Army Sgt. 1st Class Bryon O. Krepcho (left), a Dallas, Texas, native serving as a platoon sergeant in Company B, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, and Spc. Thomas A. Green (right), an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma native also serving in Company B, prepare to move to their extraction point during a night raid training mission held Sept. 6-7 at an abandoned Soviet era prison in Rummu, Estonia. The raid was part of Steadfast Javelin II, a NATO exercise involving more than 2,000 troops from nine nations conducting various training missions across Estonia, Germany, Latvia, L


Army Sgt. 1st Class Bryon O. Krepcho (left), a Dallas, Texas, native serving as a platoon sergeant in Company B, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, and Spc. Thomas A. Green (right), an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma native also serving in Company B, prepare to move to their extraction point during a night raid training mission held Sept. 6-7 at an abandoned Soviet era prison in Rummu, Estonia. The raid was part of Steadfast Javelin II, a NATO exercise involving more than 2,000 troops from nine nations conducting various training missions across Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. The exercise focuses on increasing interoperability and synchronizing complex operations between allied air and ground forces through airborne and air assault missions. Free to fight, 173rd Airborne Brigade, Estonian Scouts Battalion conduct Operation Steadfast Javelin II training mission at abandoned Estonian prison 140907-A-DB402-180


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