Operation Dragoon Ride was a 2015 military exercise of the US Army and NATO involving transfer of military equipment and personnel from the Baltic states across Poland and the Czech Republic to Germany, following Operation Atlantic Resolve. From 20 March to 1 April 2015, a convoy of armored fighting vehicles (amongst them Strykers) returned via road to their garrison Vilseck, after manoeuvres in Poland, Estonia and Lithuania. The road march was intended to demonstrate solidarity and support for Central and Eastern European NATO allies in response to Russia's actions in Ukraine, beginning in March 2014. The convoy consisted of more than 500 US troops of the 3rd Squadron of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment (nicknamed "Dragoons").