United States Soldiers participating in Defender Europe 22, make their way along
a reinforced temporary surface leading to the Vistula River bank near Deblin, Poland
The main contingent of U.S. Soldiers today are from 1st Battalion,
66th Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team,
4th Infantry Division and 5th Engineer Battalion, 36th Engineer Brigade who are meeting up with
Swedish soldiers to prepare for a heavy Armour wet gap crossing, across the Vistula river.
The soldiers are all under the command of Victory Corps (V Corps) of the US
Armed Forces, in fact V Corp is in command of all
3,268 U.S. and 5,887 multi-national service members from 11 allied and partner nations,
including Denmark, Estonia, Germany, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia,
Sweden, and Great Britain taking part in the Defender Europe 22 Exercises.
The swedish forces participating today are largely made up of Conscripted soldiers
and are from the Göta Engineering Regiment in Eksjö, the soldiers will be involved in
several wet gap crossings in May, which is one of the key excercise elements in Defender 2022.
As a matter of interest, Swedish Military conscription was actually reintroduced in 2018
as a direct result of Russia's increase in Baltic military drills, Sweden also restored
its garrison on Gotland, a big island in the Baltic sea, lying between the Swedish
mainland and three ex-Soviet Baltic states. The Swedish conscripts on completion of this series
of engineering intensive wet gap river crossings, will actually complete their military training.
Continue watching this video to see American armour conducting field exercises
with Polish and German forces in Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland