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Video by Staff Sgt. Adrian Patoka

Swift Response 18: Ramstein Air Force Base Operations

21st Theater Sustainment Command

June 8, 2018 | 6:02

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany -- This is BROLL showing 1st Battalion, 143rd Airborne Infantry Brigade getting ready to jump into Miroslawiec, Poland for Swift Response 2018, June 8.

Swift Response 18 is a joint U.S. Army/U.S. Air Force exercise designed to train the U.S. Global Response Force (GRF) – led by the U.S. Army’s 82d Airborne Division. Swift Response 18 will evaluate the readiness of the core ground component of the GRF (currently the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82d Airborne Division out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina) alongside high-readiness forces from Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as additional U.S. Army and Air Force units.

This package includes BROLL and an interview with CPT Aaron Brown, C-130 pilot, 94th Airlift Wing