GRAFENWOEHR, Germany - German Army Lt. Gen. Reinhard Kammgrer, Commander, German Army forces command, walks to the next briefing area during Combined Endeavor (CE) 2012 Distinguished Visitors Day, Joint Multinational Training Command, Grafenwoehr, Germany, Sept. 13, 2012. CE12 is a multinational command, control, communications and computer systems exercise designed to build and enhance communications and network interoperability between 41 nations and international organizations.

BERLIN - Army Sgt. Antonio Gattis, Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment flight medic, Landstuhl, Germany, reunites with German soldiers here Sept. 11, 2012 at the Berlin Air Show, commonly known as ILA 2012. Four German soldiers visited Gattis at the U.S. military "corral."

Bundeswehr Staff Sgt. Eugene Nagel had one main reason for standing in a long line with about 100 other German Soldiers at the 29th International Monte Kali Cup Shooting.

Spc. Daniel Donaldson (standing, third from left) and Sgt. Mohammed Echiheb (behind machine gun) describe the operation of an M249 squad automatic weapon at one of the stations at the Monte Kali shooting competition in Wackernheim.

Italian and German Soldiers throw mock hand grenades at one of the Monte Kali ranges in Wackernheim.

U.S. Army Europe Soldiers from the 421nd Multifunctional Medical Battalion, 30th Medical Command, hosted a combat life saver course for Bundeswehr service members from NATO and reserve units, and German Polizei, May 12.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. John Lacroix, with the 421st Multifunctional Medical Battalion, instructs a Bundeswehr soldier on the proper procedure to care for a simulated casualty at the Viper Pit in Wiesbaden, Germany, May 12. The Viper Pit teaches combat life saver skills and then tests the trainees on what they have learned by placing them in a stressful scenario where they have to rescue and treat victims while "under fire."

Bundeswehr soldiers rush into the Viper Pit during Combat Live Saver training May 12 in Wiesbaden, Germany.

No matter which country's uniform Soldiers wear, the challenges they face and the triumphs they enjoy are often the same. Long hours spent in formation. Weeks spent in training, listening intently to learn about the dangers they'll face in war. The nerves of standing at attention while a First Sergeant looks them over. The pride of getting pinned with an award by a commander.

From back, Maj. Gen. Robert Brown, Col. Walter Piatt and Command Sgt. Maj. Steven McCaflin of the Maneuver Center of Excellence and Infantry School at Ft. Benning, Ga., watch snipers from the Bundeswehr at the German Infantry Academy in Hammelburg, Germany. The U.S. command team's visit was part of an exhibition of recent graduations of both U.S. and German Soldiers from the school's sniper course.

German 2nd Lt. Lars Honig, SanStff Mainz Hospital, plots his navigation points before leaving his start point at the Land Navigation Lane of the 2011 U.S. Army Europe Expert Field Medical Badge Stadardization and Testing land navigation course July 31, 2011 at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Thomas Wheeler, 138th PAD, NYARNG)

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany - Army Sgt. Danover Sealey, 8th Medical Company (Logistics), mentors German Staff Sgt. Joseph Daniel, of 5th Command Support Battalion, during zero week of the 2011 U.S. Army Europe Expert Field Medical Badge Standardization and Testing July 28. All candidates attending the competition must have a weapons qualification of marksman or above before the start of the EFMB. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Dennis Gravelle)

German Soldiers complete the push-up portion of the Army Physical Fitness Test July 27, as they prepare to take part in the 2011 Expert Field Medical Badge standardization and testing at Grafenwoehr, Germany. The NATO troops will be joined later this week by nearly 300 U.S. Army and Navy medical personnel, who will vie for the coveted badge from July 31 - August 13. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Fincham)

German Soldiers complete the push-up portion of the Army Physical Fitness Test July 27, as they prepare to take part in the 2011 Expert Field Medical Badge standardization and testing at Grafenwoehr, Germany. The NATO troops will be joined later this week by nearly 300 U.S. Army and Navy medical personnel, who will vie for the coveted badge from July 31 - August 13. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Fincham)

WIESBADEN, Germany — Shots echo through the Wackernheim Firing Range as members of the Hessen Polizei, soldiers of the Bundeswehr and Military Police of U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden refine their skills in a joint exercise March 15-17.