Swift Response 15 [Image 17 of 22]

HOHENFELS, BY, GERMANY

08.27.2015

Photo by Staff Sgt. Carol Lehman 

VIPER COMBAT CAMERA USAREUR

U.S. Army Sgt. Moise Williams, right, of Chemical Reconnaissance Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 127th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division discusses the current operation with Sgt. 1st Class Marc-Henry Avriliean of Raptor Team, Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) (Operations Group) while reacting to a simulated chemical spill during exercise Swift Response 15 at the U.S. Army’s JMRC 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 04:54
• Photo ID: 2152653
• VIRIN: 150828-A-FN852-281
• Resolution: 5388x3592
• Size: 7.46 MB
• Location: HOHENFELS, BY, DE