Anyone who doubts the U.S. commitment to European security should watch the blurry green videos of the opening phase of the Swift Response exercise last week in Estonia. 400 U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division flew eleven hours nonstop from Fort Bragg for a night-time drop. They linked up with a similarly sized battalion-sized task force who flew in from Lithuania.
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This handout photo courtesy of the U.S. Army taken Oct. 27, 2020, shows soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division using the latest prototype of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) during a training exercise at Fort Pickett, Blackstone, Virginia.
