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Operation Red Dragon Joint Area Recon Training

Joint Force Headquarters - Alabama National Guard

June 14, 2015 | 1:35

Members of the 1-131st Cavalry, Alabama Army National Guard and the 528th Light Reconnaissance Battalion, Romanian Land Force, conduct a joint area reconnaissance mission during Exercise Red Dragon at the Danube River Delta in Tulcea, Romania, June 14, 2015.

Operation Red Dragon is a training exercise conducted between the 131st Cavalry, Alabama Army National Guard and the 528th Light Reconnaissance Battalion, Romanian Land Force, in an effort to build stronger ties between American and Romanian forces. Operation Red Dragon is part of Operation Atlantic Resolve.

Operation Atlantic Resolve is a demonstration of continued U.S. commitment to the collective security of NATO and to enduring peace and stability in the region, in light of Russia's illegal actions in Ukraine.  Army Europe is leading the Operation Atlantic Resolve enhanced land force multinational training and security cooperation activities taking place across Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to ensure multinational interoperability, strengthen relationships among allied militaries, contribute to regional stability and demonstrate U.S. commitment to NATO. 

ZONE RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
DANUBE RIVER DELTA
TULCEA, ROMAINIA
14 JUNE 2015

MEMBERS OF THE ALABAMA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD’S FIRST OF THE ONE THIRTY-FIRST CAV-AL-RY OUT OF ENTERPRISE ALABAMA TEAMED UP WITH THE ROMANIAN LAND FORCE’S FIVE TWENTY-EIGHTH LIGHT RECONNAISSANCE BATTALION FOR EXERCISE RED DRAGON.

THE TROOPS ARE RETURNING FROM A JOINT ZONE RECONNAISSANCE MISSION IN THE BAN-UE RIVER DELTA IN TUL- CHEA, ROMANIA.

Staff Sgt. Ariel Kerry
131 Cavalry

AMERICAN AND ROMANIAN TROOPS ARE TRAINING TO-GETHER DRAWING FROM EACH-OTHERS TACTICS AND CULTURES.

Lt. Lazaresc Ionut
528th Light Reconnaissance Battalion, Romanian Land Force

REPORTING FROM BABADAG, ROMANIA I’M SPECIALIST WILLIAM FRYE

NOTES:
TULCEA= TUL- CHEA

DANUBE= DAN-YOOB
BBABADAG= BAH-BA—DAHG

ZONE RECONNAISSANCE MISSION, DANUBE RIVER DELTA,
TULCEA, ROMAINIA

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