A U.S. Soldier assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team fires an M240B machine gun during exercise Combined Resolve 2013 at the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command's Hohenfels Training Area in Hohenfels, Germany, Nov. 15, 2013. Combined Resolve is an annual U.S.-led combined arms exercise designed to prepare U.S. and European forces for multinational operations.