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German soldiers with the 371st Armored Infantry Battalion take a position with an anti-tank rocket launcher during a media day at the barracks in Marienberg, Germany, on March 10. The unit is a primary part NATO’s new Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF). (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters) NATO Exercise Noble Jump 2015 Published on Apr 1, 2015 To learn more, visit: www.aco.nato.int www.flickr.com/groups/noblejump15 NATO will commence the process of testing and refinement of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) during part one of Exercise NOBLE JUMP, from 1-10 April 2015. The VJTF is being established as a part of an overall enhancement to the NATO Response Force in order to address new security challenges on NATO’s southern and eastern peripheries. The NOBLE JUMP ‘Alert Exercise’ being conducted in early April is the first time that high-readiness units will practice responding to rapid ‘orders to move’ under the new VJTF framework. As such, this event repr