101st Airbone soldiers test battlefield of the future
In today's environment, the art of deception goes beyond face paint and camouflage.
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In today's environment, the art of deception goes beyond face paint and camouflage.
Charlie D'Agata goes inside a training exercise at Fort Johnson in Louisiana with the Army's 101st Airborne Division to see how they're preparing for future conflicts.
Roughly 4,700 soldiers of the elite 101st Airborne Division are now stationed near the front line in Ukraine — the largest deployment of the unit in Europe since World War II. U.S. soldiers at the base told CBS News that they are "ready to defend every inch of NATO soil" if necessary.
Charlie D'Agata is on a U.S. military facility on Romania's Black Sea coast, where he witnessed the largest deployment of the 101st Airborne Division in Europe since World War II. The deployment comes as NATO continues to ramp up its forces on the alliance's eastern flank as the Kremlin continues to ramp up its anti-western rhetoric to explain a string of battlefield losses in Ukraine.