U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Casey Ripp from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 173rd Special Troops Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team mentors a Bulgarian army soldier, replicating Afghan Uniformed Police, during a training exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, March 10, 2012. The U.S. Army's 173rd ABCT, Europe's rapid-reaction force, is conducting a mission rehearsal exercise at the JMRC in preparation for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. The exercise is designed to develop combat skills, counter-insurgency tactics and the multinational partnerships between the military forces of the U.S., Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
Spc. Evangelia Grigiss
Taken on 10 March 2012
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