SWIFT RESPONSE

Swift Response
 
 
 
Swift Response 25 demonstrates multinational power projection and the expansion of critical capabilities on the battlefield in the High North and Baltics through airborne jumps and integration of technology in support of the Army Modernization Strategy and DoD Arctic Strategy. Swift Response 25 involves five near-simultaneous airborne insertions, HIRAIN training, a field hospital exercise and live fires conducted with NATO networks in Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Finland from May 11 – 31, 2025.
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B-Roll: US, Ghana conduct partnered medical training with K9 care
U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa
March 10, 2025 | 1:51
U.S. Army Soldiers and combat medics from the Ghana Armed Forces, conduct tactical combat casualty care with a simulated K9 during a partner medical training exercise at Caserma Del Din, Vicenza, Italy, Jan. 15, 2025. U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) strengthens interoperability with African partners through focused security cooperation exchanges such as the partner medical training. This exchange enabled teams from SETAF-AF, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, Dental Health Activity-Italy, and the Ghana Armed Forces to share medical best practices, strengthening readiness and interoperability between partners, while challenging medics to conduct their duties under the stress of simulated combat scenarios. (U.S. Army video by Spc. Ivan Hernandez)

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(00:00:00) MEDIUM SHOT: Soldiers get ready to start the lane
(00:04:04) MEDIUM SHOT: Soldier looks ahead
(00:08:05) MEDIUM SHOT: Soldiers advance towards the simulated K9 casualty
(00:18:12) CLOSE SHOT: Soldiers advance towards the simulated K9 casualty
(00:23:23) MEDIUM SHOT: Soldiers secure a perimeter around the simulated K9 casualty
(00:31:20) LONG SHOT: Soldiers secure a perimeter around the simulated K9 casualty
(00:40:25) LONG SHOT: Soldiers conduct care under fire
(00:44:05) MEDIUM SHOT: Soldiers conduct care under fire
(00:47:14) CLOSE SHOT: Tourniquet being applied
(00:50:11) MEDIUM SHOT: Soldiers evacuate the simulated K9 casualty
(00:56:26) LONG SHOT: Soldiers start treating the simulated K9 casualty
(01:00:07) MEDIUM SHOT: Soldiers treat the simulated K9 casualty
(01:03:25) CLOSE SHOT: Soldiers treating the simulated K9 casualty
(01:07:01) MEDIUM SHOT: Soldiers treating the simulated K9 casualty
(01:10:02) MEDIUM SHOT: Soldier uses a needle chest decompression
(01:13:27) CLOSE SHOT: Needle chest decompression
(01:17:06) CLOSE SHOT: Soldier fills an injection needle
(01:20:27) MEDIUM SHOT: Soldiers treats the simulated K9 casualty with the injection needle
(01:24:03) CLOSE SHOT: Soldiers treats the simulated K9 casualty with the injection needle
(01:27:05) CLOSE SHOT: Ghanaian combat medic treating the simulated K9 casualty
(01:30:09) MEDIUM SHOT: Grader reviews what the soldiers did right and wrong
(01:33:19) CLOSE SHOT: Ghanaian combat medic patch
(01:37:07) CLOSE SHOT: 173rd patch
(01:40:13) CLOSE SHOT: COMCAM goes BOOM BOOM BOOM
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  • Italy
    ItalyParatroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade will depart from Italy to conduct an airborne drop into Lithuania.
  • Finland

    FinlandThe Finnish Army will conduct a live fire exercise with the Polish Armed Forces and U.S. Forces will fire HIMARS also known as HIRAIN training.

    Polish paratroopers will conduct an airborne jump into Finland, where they will join the Finnish Army to conduct force on force training.

  • Latvia

    Latvia

    In Latvia, paratroopers from Spanish Airborne Brigade and 173rd Airborne Brigade will conduct an airborne jump into Latvia and a live-fire exercises will follow .
    Also, the Latvian national exercise, Crystal Arrow, will be conducted simultaneously with Swift Response 25.  
  • Lithuania

    Lithuania

    In Lithuania, there will be a Field hospital exercise and medical operations. A U.S.-based blood support detachment will deploy to Europe, where they will be issued Army Prepositioned Stock and join the 512th Field Hospital in Lithuania. The exercise will demonstrate theater medical support operations while working under chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear conditions. The field hospital exercise will also include a simulated blood draw and resupply to forward positioned medical teams using drones.
    Paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade will conduct an airborne assault into Lithuania alongside NATO Allies from France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.
    The Lithuanian national exercise Iron Wolf will be linked with Swift Response 25 events with participants from the Netherlands, Lithuania and Germany.
  • Norway
    NorwayAs part of Swift Response 25, paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division will deploy from the U.S. and conduct
    a direct airborne jump into Norway in the first major event commencing DEFENDER 25. This event is one of five,
    near-simultaneous airborne operations that will be taking place in Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden.
     

    Also U.S. and Host Nation will conduct Live-fires in Norway.

  • Slovenia

    SloveniaSlovenia is providing a strategic aerial port of disembarkation (APODs) in Cerklje Air Base.

  • Sweden

    Sweden

    NATO Allies will conduct an airborne jump into Gotland Island, setting the stage for U.S. Marines to conduct a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System Rapid Insertion (HIRAIN) training on the island.

  • United Kingdom

    United KingdomTroops moving from United Kingdom to Norway and Sweden.