Fort Bragg paratroopers head to Europe for first big training exercise since pandemic s start Rachael Riley, The Fayetteville Observer
82nd Airborne Division marks National Airborne Day UP NEXT
Jumping at night into a foreign country while working with international allies and following COVID-19 guidelines is how paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division are spending their next few weeks.
Airborne soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, jumped into Estonia beginning late Thursday night and into early Friday morning as part of a multinational joint exercise known as Swift Response 21.
Swift Response is an exercise involving multiple European partners while showcasing the ability to deploy forces on short notice across the Atlantic.
Jumping at night into a foreign country while working with international allies and following COVID-19 guidelines is how paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division are spending their next few weeks.
Airborne soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, jumped into Estonia beginning late Thursday night and into early Friday morning as part of a multinational joint exercise known as Swift Response 21.
Swift Response is an exercise involving multiple European partners while showcasing the ability to deploy forces on short notice across the Atlantic.
The Fort Bragg paratroopers aren’t alone for the training exercise.
The division’s headquarters commanded the exercise from Romania and is also overseeing the 173rd Airborne Brigade’s jump into Bulgaria between Sunday and Monday, and the Polish 6th Airborne Brigade’s jump into Romania on Monday.
Paratroopers with 82nd Airborne fly non-stop to jump into Estonia tonight 10 hours ago U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, jump into Lithuania as part of Swift Response 2018. This year s Swift Response exercise will be massive. (Army) A large contingent of U.S. paratroopers is expected to jump into Estonia tonight after a long flight from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, that includes mid-air refueling. The jump is one of three brigade-size jumps over the next several days in which a total of 7,000 paratroopers from the United States and 10 other nations will conduct a joint forcible entry exercise at each of the landing sites in Estonia, Bulgaria and Romania.
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