 The soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade made a grand entrance to kick off the nearly two-week-long exercise. Along with soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division, they will be training together with a Georgian-Light Infantry Company, focused on enhancing U.S. and Georgian capabilities within the NATO Response Force. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Dari-Bashvili said this is very important for the Georgian Army and people, since they are contributing their forces into a NATO structure voluntarily. This field training is aimed at deepening the collaboration between the United States and Georgian Armed Forces and expanding the combat capabilities of NATO reaction forces. The deepening of collaboration and working together is something that the two militaries have been doing now for over 15 years. According to Brigadier General Mark Lohbin, training with and deploying together to Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan has created more in our partnership. But after so many years of cooperation and working together, today's Georgian and U.S. militaries are more like a brotherhood than just a partnership. Coming from the Viziani train here, Tony Swing, Army Europe, on the Bears.