This December, U.S. Special Operations Forces present in Eastern Europe were invited by the Lithuanian military to provide observational and training support for Exercise Iron Sword 2016. This exercise provided SOF an opportunity to observe their Lithuanian partners train and validate their skills.

Exercise Iron Sword 2016 was a two week multinational Battalion Battle Group field training exercise in Lithuania. Participants included conventional, airborne, and mechanized infantry battalions from Lithuania, the U.S., Canada, Estonia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. There were observers from Ukraine and Sweden. The first week of exercises focused on company situational training exercise lanes and the second was a large scale, force on force, maneuver exercise.

In this video, one LTU PSYOPS Team conducted a leaflet drop over three target areas from a Lithuanian MI-8 helicopter. The team coordinated directly with their aviation asset, planned their drop location/dispersion factors, and executed the drop. Regional MISO Detachment-Baltic provided insight on planning, coordination, and execution while observing this operation.

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