Paratroopers from 173rd Airborne Brigade and U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa join Tunisia Armed Forces in an airborne exercise near Bizerte, Tunisia, March 3-4.
Approximately 50 Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, parachuted alongside 50Tunisian military counterparts onto the Al Amila drop zone on Sidi Ahmed Air Base near Bizerte, Tunisia.
The paratroopers jumped from U.S. and Tunisian military aircraft, qualifying them for an exchange of foreign jump wings.
U.S. and Tunisian soldiers presented each other parachutist badges in a ceremony March 4.
While the militaries have joined together in a number of military exercises, including African Lion last year, this was the first U.S.-Tunisia airborne exercise in a decade.