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Press Release - Sky Soldiers lead Allied airborne exercise in Lithuania
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May 14, 2025 - Over 1,600 paratroopers from the U.S., Germany, Netherlands, France, and Italy, will conduct a major airborne assault exercise led by the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade “Sky Soldiers” near Pabrade, Lithuania on May 16...

Press Release - The 68th Theater Medical Command leads medical training in Lithuania
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May 13, 2025 - The 68th Theater Medical Command will lead approximately 500 Soldiers participating in a field hospital exercise during Swift Response 25 at multiple locations in Lithuania from May 11-17, 2025, to train, rehearse, and build...

Press Release -173rd Airborne Brigade brings DEFENDER 25 to the Baltics
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May 13, 2025 - U.S. and Spanish paratroopers will conduct a joint airborne operation showcasing the speed and strength of their combined forces in Latvia on May 15. The exercise, involving the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade and the...

PRESS RELEASE - 82nd Airborne Division participates in Swift Response 25
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May 7, 2025 - Approximately 600 Paratroopers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, will participate in a joint forcible entry airborne operation as part of Swift Response 25 from 13-16 May in Norway.

Press Release - Arcane Thunder 25 Exercise Announcement
The 56th Artillery Command will plan and coordinate the employment of multi-domain fires and effects in support of U.S. Army Europe and Africa and/or a Combined Joint Force Land Component Command. The Theater Fires Command improves readiness and multinational interoperability by the integration of joint and multi-national fires in theater operations and exercises.
The unit takes it’s lineage from the 56th Field Artillery Command, which last served on active duty in Europe from 1986 to 1991 as the Theater’s Pershing Missile Headquarters. It inactivated in June 1991 following the signing of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The 56th Artillery Command is headquartered in Mainz-Kastel, Germany.
May 5, 2025 - More than 300 U.S. and Allied service members are participating in Exercise Arcane Thunder 25 (AT25), a U.S. Army Europe and Africa directed, 2nd Multi-Domain Task Force-led exercise designed to strengthen multi-domain
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