U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Garrett Gillette, a loadmaster with the 115th Airlift Squadron, California Air National Guard, sits on the ramp of a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft while watching Army Stryker armored vehicles drive past during Steadfast Javelin II at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Sept. 3, 2014. Steadfast Javelin II is a NATO-led exercise designed to prepare U.S., NATO and European partner nations forces for large-scale unified land operations.