USAREUR Public Affairs

March 29, 2002

173rd Airborne punches into Czech Republic

Photos by Sgt Thorin Sprandel
SETAF Public Affairs

Paratroopers from 2nd Bn., 503rd Inf. (Abn), 173rd Abn. Bde., conduct an airfield
seizure mission during Lion Stealth 02 at a former Soviet MiG airfield about 100
km south of Prague.
Paratroopers from 2nd Bn, 503rd Inf (Abn), 173rd Abn. Bde., assault an objective
during Lion Stealth 02.

A support by fire team made up of paratroopers from 2nd Bn., 503rd Inf.
(Airborne), 173rd Abn. Bde., suppresses an objective while using smoke for
concealment at Bechyne, Czech Republic, March 25.