Image:Estonian Soldier DM-SD-02-00619.jpg

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Description

An Estonian soldier armed with an Galil AR carbine

Date

21 Aug 1996

Source

http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/

Source's ID

DMSD0200619 960821M8708Y005

Original caption

An Estonian soldier armed with an AKSU-74 sub-machine gun keeps an eye out for suspicious behavior from motorists passing through his roadblock during Situational Training Exercise 5, Check Point Operations/ Weapons Disarmament, COOPERATIVE OSPREY 96. Cooperative Osprey is a United States Atlantic Command sponsored exercise, that is conducted by Marine Forces Atlantic at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Cooperative Osprey, under the Partnership for Peace program, will provide interoperability training in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations along NATO/IFOR standards, with an emphasis on individual and collective skills. The three NATO countries providing troops are the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands. The 16 "Partnership for Peace" nations contributing troops are Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, POLAND, Romania, Slovak Republic, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. In addition, the following countries are providing observers to the exercise: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Czech Republic, and Denmark.

Location: MARINE CORPS BASE, CAMP LEJEUNE, NORTH CAROLINA (NC) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

Photographer

PFC E. J. YOUNG, USMC

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