My name is Lieutenant Matthew Lehman.
I'm part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade
and I'm stationed in Vicenza, Italy.
Here in Romania we're supporting
Swift Response 19 and part of that operation.
We're working with soldiers from many countries.
We're working with soldiers from Germany, from Spain,
and here in Romania. We're also working with our
Airborne National Guard unit, the 1143, stationed in Texas.
To start off the mission, we're going to do a
joint forcible entry onto an airfield here in Romania.
Once we've seized the objective, we're gonna move on
and do an air assault where we're gonna move
to a different objective and defeat the enemy there.
Why these operations are important
is because we get to experience what it's like
to work with soldiers from many different nations.
We have different ways of fighting,
different ways of thinking, and that opens up our soldiers
to new perspectives and new experiences.
The more we work with soldiers from all over the world,
the more we can interact and be better for future battles.
Here we are at Bogat, Romania.
We're preparing for a joint forcible entry onto an airfield.
We're combining with our Airborne National Guard unit
at 1143, stationed in Texas, and we're supporting
the seizure of this enemy airfield.