From left to right, Brig. Gen. Jaroslaw Gromadzinski,

From left to right, Brig. Gen. Jaroslaw Gromadzinski, Commander of the 15th Mechanized Brigade (Poland), and Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, Commander of the U.S. Army Europe, attend the 2nd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment‘s Validation Exercise at the 7th Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Jan. 31, 2017. The exercise will prepare the Squadron for enhanced forward presence in 2017 and will ensure maneuver leaders at the troop level are capable of integrating combat multipliers organic to the Regiment and will enable the troops and squadron to execute a variety of tactical missions. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Gertrud Zach)