173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team Mission Rehearsal Exercise

U.S. Army Spc. Yevheniy Zeyda from the 173rd Brigade Support Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team operates multiple radios at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, March 12, 2012. The U.S. Army's 173rd ABCT, Europe's rapid- reaction force, is conducting a mission rehearsal exercise at JMRC in preparation for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. The exercise is designed to develop combat skills, counter- insurgency tactics and the multinational partnerships between the military forces of the U.S., Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia.