In preparation for a night raid training mission held Sept. 6-7 at Rummu, Estonia, Army 1st Lt. Benjamin F. DeDominici (right), a Boston, Massachusetts native serving as a platoon leader for Company B, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade briefs Estonian Defense Forces soldiers and U.S. Army paratroopers about an objective in Murru Vanglad, an abandoned Soviet era prison. The raid was part of Steadfast Javelin II, a NATO exercise involving more than 2,000 troops from nine nations conducting various training missions across Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. The exercise focuses on increasing interoperability and synchronizing complex operations between allied air and ground forces through airborne and air assault missions.