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English: By Sgt. Renee Seruntine, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

BRASOV, Romania – The 5-101st Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Task Force Eagle Assault partnered with 206th Reconnaissance Company, 2nd Mountain Brigade, Romanian Land Forces to build readiness and lethality through collective training across multinational allies and partners, during ’Operation Wolf Strike’ on Nov. 23, 2020.

This training gave Task Force Eagle Assault a chance to conduct an out-of-sector mission with a tailored team that best accomplished the mission and built interoperability with Romanian Land Forces. It also provided the aircrews an opportunity to conduct high altitude training in mountainous terrain, further demonstrating their capabilities in support of the Atlantic Resolve mission.

“With the air assault planning process itself, there’s rehearsals done both with where we want to be with time and space and also with our crew chiefs,” said 1Lt. Adam Kanavos, Bravo Co. platoon leader. “So, training with the Romanian Soldiers on how they get on and get off the aircraft safely in the most effective way; especially with training in the mountains, we conduct cold load training, which helps smooth over the operation as a whole.”

The intent of the mission is to demonstrate force projection capabilities with NATO Allies, familiarize our Romanian allies on the planning and conducting of air assault operations, delivering the Romanian recce platoon into mountainous terrain, provide attack and reconnaissance capabilities and conduct medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) exercises.

“Today went really well training with the 206th Reconnaissance Company, it’s always unique to work with other forces throughout Europe,” said Cpt. Manning Morgan, 101st CAB, Charlie Co. commander. “Charlie Co. specifically has been really privileged to work with a lot of different players, but the Romanians, we’re pretty familiar with, and they ar