Troops assigned to Apache Troop, 1st Squadron, 2d Cavalry Regiment ground guide their Strykers to the flight line exit to reinforce an airfield seized, the night prior, by allied forces while deployed in support of Exercise Steadfast Javelin II at Leilvarde Airbase, Latvia, Sept. 6, 2014. Steadfast Javelin is a NATO exercise involving over 2,000 troops from 10 nations and focuses on increasing interoperability and synchronizing complex operations between allied air and ground forces.