The Vigorous Warrior Exercise Series is organized by the NATO Military Medicine Centre of Excellence together with a different host nation each year. This year, approximately 45 Airmen from the 86th Medical Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, will join more than 2,500 total participants from 38 countries. Vigorous Warrior is a nationally-funded exercise that offers nations the ability to exercise experimental doctrinal concepts, train in a multinational environment, and stress their medical assets which include first-responder, field hospital, theater hospital, and definitive full-capability hospital care.