Exercise Ultimate Reach 2015
U.S. Army paratroopers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, load onto U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft during exercise Ultimate Reach Nov. 3, 2015, Pope Army Airfield, N.C. Eighteenth Air Force units, partnered with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, are participating in Exercise Ultimate Reach Nov. 2-8. This iteration of Ultimate Reach partners with NATO Exercise Trident Juncture, currently being held in locations across Europe. C-17 crews from Joint Base Charleston, S.C., Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, will fly more than 500 paratroopers across the Atlantic to conduct a joint forcible entry exercise over Zaragoza, Spain. (U.S. Air Force photo/Marvin Krause)