The US Army’s ‘Sky Soldiers’ of the 173rd Airborne Brigade and other Allied paratroopers have jumped into Germany for SABER JUNCTION 2024.
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US Army paratroopers from the Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade jumped into Hohenfels Training Area in Germany for the annual US-led Exercise SABER JUNCTION.
The exercise tests the 173rd’s ability to quickly carry out an airborne operation alongside ten NATO Allies and partners – a task uniquely suited to the Europe-based paratrooper brigade, which serves as the US Army’s contingency response force in Europe. For this year’s iteration, US Air Force transport aircraft are performing take-offs and landings from the training area’s austere landing strip, recently reactivated to give pilots experience performing quick turn-around missions.
Participating countries include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Italy, Lithuania, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, the United Kingdom and the United States. SABER JUNCTION 2024 started on 4 September and continues until 19 September.
This NATO Multimedia footage, filmed 4th September and released yesterday, includes shots of paratroopers landing in Hohenfels, shots of a US Air Force C-130 Hercules transport aircraft landing inside the training area and an interview with US Army Brigadier General Steven Carpenter, Commander of the 7th Army Training Command.
Shot list:-
- 00:00 ~ Paratroopers jumping out of C-17 transport aircraft
- 00:12 ~ Paratroopers descending and landing
- 00:25 ~ C-17s flying over soldiers
- 00:37 ~ Soldiers moving out after landing
- 00:55 ~ US Air Force C-130 transport aircraft lands at austere landing strip
- 01:06 ~ Humvee disembarks C-130
- 01:15 ~ Humvees drive off landing strip
- 01:18 ~ C-130 takes off
- 01:42 ~ Soundbite: US Army Brigadier General Steven Carpenter
- 02:15 ~ Soundbite: US Army Brigadier General Steven Carpenter
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