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    SWIFT RESPONSE

    Swift Response

    Swift Response    

    Swift Response 24 involves approximately 3,650 U.S. and 9,500 multinational participants and is scheduled to begin around May 5, 2024, with Joint Forcible Entries (JFEs), or airborne operations. In addition to the airborne operations, multinational forces will conduct air assaults, live-fires and multinational training. This year Swift Response is linked to the national exercises Quadriga South in Germany, Dacia 24 in Romania and Spring Strike in Sweden.

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    12CAB Participates in DEFENDER 23

    12CAB Participates in DEFENDER 23
    05.05.23 | CPT Gabrielle Hildebrand | 12CAB
    CH-47F Chinook helicopters assigned to the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade depart to participate in Exercise Swift Response 23 from Katterbach...

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    Tearing down the TOC after Swift Response

    Tearing down the TOC after Swift Response
    05.17.23 | Patrick Loch | 7MSC
    Following the successful support to training units taking part in Swift Response, members of the 510th Regional Support Group struck their...
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    JTACs with an A-10

    JTACs with an A-10
    05.16.23 | MAJ Robyn Haake | USAFE
    U.S. Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTAC) assigned to 2nd Air Support Operations Squadron, Detachment 1 and 4th Expeditionary Air...
    Swift Response 23 in Spain

    Swift Response 23 in Spain
    05.16.23 | SSG John Todd | 300MPAD
    U.S. Army Soldiers, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, prepare to sprint toward their next...
    Swift Response 23 in Spain

    Swift Response 23 in Spain
    05.16.23 | SSG John Todd | 300MPAD
    U.S. Army Soldiers, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, prepare to sprint toward their next...
    Swift Response 23 in Spain

    Swift Response 23 in Spain
    05.16.23 | SSG John Todd | 300MPAD
    U.S. Army Soldiers, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, prepare to sprint toward their next...
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    A royal finish to Swift Response

    A royal finish to Swift Response
    05.18.23 | Patrick Loch | 7MSC
    A visit by the King of Spain marked the conclusion of exercise Swift Response, and made a remarkable end for U.S. and Allied Soldiers supporting...

    62d Airlift Wing provides global airlift during...
    05.24.23 | SrA Callie Norton | 62-AW
    AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy – “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.” – Winston Churchill. Earlier this month, six C-17 Globemaster IIIs assigned to the 62d Airlift Wing departed Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, to participate in Exercise Swift Response, a subset of DEFENDER 23, in Europe, May 6-20, 2023.
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