A U.S. Soldier assigned to the 1st Infantry Brigade,

A U.S. Soldier assigned to the 1st Infantry Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division descends while conducting airborne operations during exercise Swift Response 15 at the U.S. Army's Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 26, 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 Spc. Lloyd Villanueva/Released)