Green and purple smoke fills the sky as Airmen assigned to the 1st Combat Communications Squadron defend a base during a simulated attack during exercise Healthy Thunder at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Nov. 4, 2016. In order to make the field training exercise portion of Healthy Thunder as real-world as possible, the Airmen used smoke grenades, ground burst simulators and blank rounds.

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