First-year cadets at the Ukrainian Military Academy in L'viv, Ukraine, conduct a swearing-in ceremony Sept. 5, 2015. The academy is a five-year program at the end of which graduates receive commissions as lieutenants in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Paratroopers with the Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade attended the ceremony during their mission in Ukraine. The paratroopers are in Ukraine for the second of several planned rotations to train Ukraine's newly-formed national guard as part of Fearless Guardian, which is scheduled to last through November. ( Army photo by Sgt. Alexander Skripni

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First-year cadets at the Ukrainian Military Academy in L'viv, Ukraine, conduct a swearing-in ceremony Sept. 5, 2015. The academy is a five-year program at the end of which graduates receive commissions as lieutenants in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Paratroopers with the Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade attended the ceremony during their mission in Ukraine. The paratroopers are in Ukraine for the second of several planned rotations to train Ukraine's newly-formed national guard as part of Fearless Guardian, which is scheduled to last through November. ( Army photo by Sgt. Alexander Skripnichuk, 13th Public Affairs Detachment)

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