Blake Hall
This is footage of about 300 United States Army paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade training members of the Ukrainian National Guard at a former Soviet military base outside of the western Ukraine town of Lviv.
The paratroopers are based out of Vicenzo, Italy and are undertaking what’s been dubbed by the U.S. military as “Fearless Guardian” — a six-month training exercise that kicked off April 20.
According to Newsweek, many of the soldiers are combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the greatest challenges for the U.S. soldiers is applying the lessons of counterinsurgency to what the Ukrainian troops are most likely going to see soon in eastern Ukraine: heavy artillery, tank battles and possibly trench warfare.
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