Swift Response 15
Lt. Col. Peter Gilbert, commander, 307th Brigade Support Battalion briefs his task force update to the brigade command team during Swift Response 15 at Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 27. Paratroopers from seven NATO nations established and expanded a lodgment after conducting an airborne joint forcible entry. 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 - Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, 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. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple Allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deploy and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Jonathon Lewis / Released)
