This is How Modern “D-Day” Look Like: C-17 Globemaster, A-10, C-130 And US Paratroopers in Action FEATURED VIDEO by Joris Nieuwint - Mar 19, 2016 5.61k SHARES FacebookTwitter Modern D-day A-10 Thunderbolts and C-17 Globemasters and approximately 130 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division participate in the Joint Forcible Entry Exercise over Keno Airfield on the Nevada Test & Training Range. Joint Forcible Entry exercises participants ability to synchronize aircraft movements from geographically separated bases, command large formations of dissimilar aircraft in high threat airspace, and tactically deliver and recover combat forces via air drops and combat landings on an unimproved landing strip. First the A-10 Warthog comes in low and fast to neutralize any opposition on the ground, after which the transports planes arrive dropping the 82nd Airborne Division Paratroopers. They quickly secure a landing strip for the C-17 Globemaster transports who are able to land and takeoff from such strips. Produced by A1C Rebecca Long.

A-10 Thunderbolts and C-17 Globemasters and approximately 130 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division participate in the Joint Forcible Entry Exercise over Keno Airfield on the Nevada Test & Training Range.

Joint Forcible Entry exercises participants ability to synchronize aircraft movements from geographically separated bases, command large formations of dissimilar aircraft in high threat airspace, and tactically deliver and recover combat forces via air drops and combat landings on an unimproved landing strip.
First the A-10 Warthog comes in low and fast to neutralize any opposition on the ground, after which the transports planes arrive dropping the 82nd Airborne Division Paratroopers. They quickly secure a landing strip for the C-17 Globemaster transports who are able to land and takeoff from such strips.

Produced by A1C Rebecca Long.