 The winds of change may always blow but they hold no sway over the United States unwavering commitment to freedom in Europe. But the wind does have a say in the success of this NATO exercises artillery airdrop. It'll be a long flight back to Germany with packed parachutes for the boys of the 173rd if the gusts get in the way of jump safety. Ground personnel carefully measure wind speed with the airdrops fate hanging in the balance. The first pass is perfect and two howitzer shoot out the back. The birds flown over once and it's suns out guns out the next pass over the drop zone and it'll be boots on the ground. Although boots and the men are tough, they can't jump unless the wind winds down a few knots. Howitzer's can handle a hurricane but will the jump men get the green light? Roger I'm tracking no drop. I'm sitting around 10 knots steady. We'll see on the next pass. How copy? Roger I called a no drop. Wind's got to run for a knot. So we give it a no drop. It's going to do another pass and a race track approximately 12 minute race track. When it comes back around if it stays below 13 knots then we'll give it clearance to drop and we'll drop approximately 14 jumpers. DCSO, Adzo, 12 knots. Adzo, DCSO, copy, 12 knots. Jump, go, go, go, go, go, go. Far from being finished, most of the team remains in the plane, keeping their fingers crossed for less cross breeze. We're not going to drop people when the winds are too high because then they can get killed, injured, I mean all kinds of real bad. Wind shift direction coming from three to zero. Add 11 knots. Three to zero, 11 knots. With the globe master inbound to try again, the first chock reaches the artillery and tears into it like a kid on Christmas morning. But they need more hands to help and their plans are currently up in the air. Adzo, eight knots, three to zero degrees. Adzo, DCSO, copy. Wind's out here, 11 knots, first two mics out, clear to drop. As the rest of the team arrives on a wing in a prayer, the objective of this training shifts to readying the guns to fire. A mission made much easier with boots on the ground. Yeah, it was good. It was tricky. I like a challenge. It was definitely a challenge. Up to any challenge and with a win against the wind under their belts, the US's commitment to a free and secure Europe is gust and airdrop away from the Drasko Pomarski drop zone. Poland. I'm Staff Sergeant Ben Woken.