 During exercise immediate response 15 soldiers from Croatia's second mechanized battalion or thunders put their armored vehicles aside and tried their hands at infantry tactics. The purpose is I have to see I have to know how my people will defend are they good at that what they are doing and The main purpose is to exercise so I am here in my manner here to learn and train. With this training now complete the thunders move on to another training situation Training they will take to Slovenia for a battalion level event And I'm very satisfied with working with everybody else because Everybody is trying to get better and to help each other and that is the most important thing. The immediate response series of exercises has grown over the years from a simple computer assisted exercise To now actual field training in both Croatia and Slovenia from Saloon, Croatia a Marmy sergeant Jacob Sawyer