Staff Sgt. Keith Dugal, with Battle Co. 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, talks about his experience during Rapid Trident and running a "React to Contact" training lane for Moldovan soldiers participating in the multinational exercise. Also available in high definition.
Rapid Trident 2011 is a U.S. Army Europe led, multi-national exercise taking place at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv, Ukraine. It is designed to promote regional stability and security, strengthen international military partnering and foster trust while improving interoperability between participating nations.
Rapid Trident 2011 involves approximately 1,600 personnel. In addition to the U.S. Army Europe and Ukraine, participants include: Latvia, Belarus, Moldova, Slovenia, Canada, Poland, Serbia, the UK, Lithuania, Estonia, California and Utah National Guard and U.S. Air Force Europe.
Rapid Trident supports interoperability among Ukraine, the United States, NATO and Partnership for Peace member nations. This exercise will help prepare participants to operate successfully in a joint, multinational, integrated environment with host- nation support from civil and governmental agencies.
Rapid Trident is a part of U.S. European Command’s Joint Training and Exercise Program, designed to enhance joint combined interoperability with allied and partner nations.
The exercise also supports Ukraine’s Annual National Program to achieve interoperability with NATO and commitments made in the annual NATO-Ukraine work plan.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team is one of the U.S. Army’s most highly decorated units having particularly distinguished itself during the Vietnam War and having produced fifteen Congressional Medal of Honor recipients including Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War.
Date Taken: | 07.30.2011 |
Date Posted: | 08.02.2011 08:41 |
Category: | Interviews |
Video ID: | 121946 |
VIRIN: | 110730-A-TV157-001 |
Filename: | DOD_100218384 |
Length: | 00:02:05 |
Location: | YAVOROV, UA |
Downloads: | 4 |
High-Res. Downloads: | 4 |
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