Lt. Col. Douglas Lynch (left), commander of the 5th

Lt. Col. Douglas Lynch (left), commander of the 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, greets Brig. Gen. William Cole, deputy commanding general of Research, Development and Engineering Command and commander of the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, during Panther Assurance, an interoperability deployment readiness exercise, Jan. 16, at Skwierzyna, Poland. Cole visited 5-7 ADA’s training site along with Paul Jones, U.S. ambassador to Poland, and Antoni Macierewicz, Polish minister of defense, to view 5-7 ADA’s M901 Patriot Launching Stations. Exercises such as Panther Assurance provide participating nations with the ability to plan, prepare and execute joint and combined training in a real-time, realistic setting. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Paige Behringer, 10th Press Camp Headquarters)