Participating in an international cooperative national

Participating in an international cooperative national defense exercise, Soldiers of the Minnesota National Guard’s 1st Combined Arms Battalion – 194th Armor conduct interoperability training alongside their Swedish counterparts Sept. of 2017. This is the first time in over 20 years that Americans have been asked to participate in the Aurora Exercise which is comprised of several surrounding countries’ militaries as well as over 19,000 men and women of the Swedish Armed Forces.