Swift Response 15 [Image 1 of 22]

HOHENFELS, BY, GERMANY

08.27.2015

Photo by Staff Sgt. Carol Lehman 

VIPER COMBAT CAMERA USAREUR

U.S. Army Sgt. Travis Hernandez of Chemical Reconnaissance Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 127th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division dons his Joint Service Lightweight Integrated Suit Technology jacket while reacting to a simulated chemical spill during exercise Swift Response 15 at the U.S. Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 28, 2015. The purpose of the exercise is to conduct joint and combined training events in order to evaluate brigade and battalion level execution of strategic out-load in conjunction with Allied Partner nations through an intermediate staging base. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. 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- including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the 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. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Carol A. Lehman/Released)

• Date Taken: 08.27.2015
• Date Posted: 09.01.2015 05:00
• Photo ID: 2152621
• VIRIN: 150828-A-FN852-115
• Resolution: 5069x3380
• Size: 5.71 MB
• Location: HOHENFELS, BY, DE