Dutch Soldiers of 112th Armored Engineering Company, 45th Mechanized Infantry Battalion, 43rd Mechanized Brigade advance on a simulated enemy's location while conducting an area reconnaissance mission during exercise Combined Resolve V at the U.S. Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Oct. 28, 2015.
Exercise Combined Resolve V is designed to exercise the U.S. Army’s regionally allocated force to the U.S. European Command area of responsibility with multinational training at all echelons. Approximately 4,600 participants from 13 NATO and European partner nations will participate. The exercise involves around 2,000 U.S. troops and 2,600 NATO and Partner for peace nations. Combined Resolve is a preplanned exercise that does not fall under Operation Atlantic resolve. This exercise will train participants to function together in a joint, multinational and integrated environment and train U.S. rotational forces to be more flexible, agile, and to better operate alongside our NATO allies. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. John Cress Jr./Released). Original public domain image from Flickr