 Paratroopers or sky soldiers from the 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team Airborne are training on core proficiencies, the ability to rapidly project combat power anywhere in the world through airborne operations. Specifically today we're practicing an airfield seizure, so we'll be jumping onto an airfield which has its own obstacles and difficulties when it comes to planning and execution. In scenario, the objective is to jump in and seize the enemy airfield for follow-on aircraft. Well, this is why we do what we do. This is why we jump out of aircraft in the first place so that we can actually seize an airfield sometime in the future and conduct an airborne operation such as this. Operations like this allow US Army Europe to rapidly project combat power anywhere anytime. For more information visit www.er.army.mil