Members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade jump out of a military airplane during a training in Hohenfels, southern Germany, on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. Some 1,500 US paratroops have jumped over the Hohenfels training area in a massive airborne training operation. The exercise Wednesday pitted soldiers from the Vicenza, Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade against a battalion of Slovakian soldiers. The American military says not only are its soldiers now training with Eastern bloc enemies who are now NATO, but the operation also represents a change from exercises designed to prepare for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
