DEFENDER is the Army’s largest annual opportunity to exercise moving personnel and equipment into theater across modes for initial and follow-on operations critical to Large Scale Combat Operations. Led by U.S. Army Europe and Africa, the exercise focuses on the strategic deployment of CONUS-based forces, employment of Army Prepositioned Stock and follow-on exercises demonstrating lethality and interoperability with Allies and partners

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US Army's most modernized brigade goes to the National Training Center (Portrait Version)
2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Public Affairs
March 16, 2023 | 0:50
The "Spartan Brigade," 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, from Fort Stewart, Georgia, puts its modernized equipment through its paces and demonstrates its lethality during a two-week rotation at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Feb. 24 to March 10, 2023. The Spartan Brigade, the Army’s most modernized brigade, completed its rotation NTC 23-05, making it not only the best equipped but most lethal unit in America’s arsenal as the Army moves toward building the Army of 2030. (U.S. Army video by Spc. Duke Edwards, 50th Public Affairs Detachment)
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