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DRAWSKO-POMORSKIE, Poland - U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade trained alongside Polish and Canadian soldiers on the AT4 Rocket Launcher May 26 and 27 at a military training area near Drawsko-Pomorskie, Poland.
The U.S. Army Soldiers, based out of Vicenza, Italy, have been holding ongoing training exercises in Poland with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and Poland’s 6th Airborne Brigade for over a month.
This allied training event also included instruction by Polish soldiers on their RPG-7, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Both weapons are designed for ground forces to defend against light-armored vehicles.
Polish Cpl. Michal Milowski, part of the 6th Airborne Brigade and one of the day’s RPG-7 trainers, said he valued the training experience and enjoyed learning how to use AT4.
“To share our experience, we can compare what are our differences, our similarities; this is the best part of this training,” Milowski said.
The training was scheduled for two days with walk-to-run phases, to ensure each soldier could safely operate the weapons.
“The training has been good,” said Staff Sgt. Jeff Fletcher, a 173rd Airborne paratrooper who led the events AT4 training. “There’s a little bit of a language barrier, but we’re all paratroopers, so we have that special unspoken bond.”
For over a month, the 173rd Airborne has been holding exercises alongside their host nation in Poland – as well as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – to build allied interoperability.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, based in Vicenza, Italy, is the U.S. Army’s Contingency Response Force in Europe, and is capable of projecting forces to conduct the full of range of military operations across the U.S. European, Central and Africa commands’ areas of responsibility.
| Date Taken: | 05.26.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 06.03.2014 10:49 |
| Story ID: | 131908 |
| Location: | DRAWSKO-POMORSKIE, PL |
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