25,000 US-NATO Troops with Hundreds of Military Vehicles Arrive in Romania to Joint Saber Guardian

The annual multinational combat-training exercise locations across Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria and involved 25,000 troops – 14,000 from the United States and 11,000 from Europe.

The exercise was the military’s largest land-force exercise in Europe. The joint training and exercises for U.S. European Command.

Saber Guardian is one of exercises in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea that fall under the Eucom Joint Exercise Program.

Saber Guardian is an annual, U.S. Army Europe-led, multinational exercise locations across Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, and is co-hosted by the land force components in those countries. Saber Guardian is the largest in size and scope since its inception in 2013. Though it is not a NATO exercise, hosting nations are all NATO members.

Other participants include: Armenia, Croatia, Czech, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

Saber Guardian features an air defense artillery live fire exercise, several field training and live fire exercises, multiple river crossings, airborne operations, air assault and a mass casualty exercise.

The U.S. and European units work and train together in realistic combat scenarios that prepare them to respond in unison to any new security crisis that emerges on the continent. They practice coordinating air, land, and sea forces to launch multidomain assaults or defense operations. And they cooperate to mobilize and transport multinational forces to an area at short notice.

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00:02 Military Vehicles and Equipment from 2nd Cavalry Regiment arrive in Romania
01:18 US Troops arrive in Romania to Join Saber Guardian Exercise
02:05 US and NATO Troops prepare for Saber Guardian Exercise
02:26 US Airborne along side NATO allies and partner nations before participating in a Joint Forcible Entry during Exercise Saber Guardian
04:17 Airborne Operations
05:22 US, NATO during Saber Guardian Exercise
05:30 firing M777 howitzer during Saber Guardian
06:12 firing HIMARS rocket system during Saber Guardian
06:51 Rescue operations
07:31 Wet Gap Crossing in Romanian river
07:51 Air defense exercise
08:31 Firing rocket missile during Saber Guardian
09:09 Armored combat tank

Video by Spc. Emily Houdershieldt, Spc. Stephen Malone, Training Support Activity Europe Derivative Work by War is Boring.

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