The U.S. Army wants to keep able to respond at once to potential global threats. For the soldiers of the 82nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (the “Big Red One”), that kind of decisive action was recently put to the test during a rapid response readiness exercise in eastern Europe.
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| U.S. Army Spec. Anthony Yang, a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear specialist with the 82nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, uses a Danish M60 machine gun during a multinational training session with the Danish Vidar Company, Guard Hussars Regiment, in Tapa, Estonia, on March 10 (Photo credit: US Army / Spec. Hubert D. Delany III, 22nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment). |