U.S. soldiers of 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team load onto a CH-47 Chinook helicopter while conducting airborne operations during a mission rehearsal exercise (MRE) at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, March 30, 2014. The MRE was conducted at the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command’s Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels Training Areas in order to prepare the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade to deploy to Afghanistan to provide medical evacuation and combat support to the NATO International Security Assistance Force mission. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt Nicholaus Williams/Released)