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    Free to fight: 173rd Airborne Brigade, Estonian Scouts Battalion conduct Operation Steadfast Javelin II training mission at abandoned Estonian prison [Image 6 of 30]

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    A U.S. Army soldier in Army Combat Uniform (ACU) digital camouflage pattern is aiming a weapon mounted on a bipod through an optical scope. The soldier wears an Airborne unit patch on the left shoulder and a patrol cap with what appears to be a first lieutenant rank insignia. The image is taken indoors, likely during an operational or training scenario.

    ESTONIA

    09.05.2014

    Photo by Sgt. John Carkeet IV 

    143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary)

    Army Pvt. Dimitri J. Hawksford, a Hudson, Wisconsin, native serving as an infantryman in Company B, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment,173rd Airborne BrigaSgt. John L. Carkeet IV, 143rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), U.S. Army Reservede aims a Squad Automatic Weapon during a rehearsal for a night raid training mission held Sept. 5 at an abandoned Soviet era prison in Rummu, Estonia. The raid was part of Steadfast Javelin II, a NATO exercise involving more than 2,000 troops from nine nations conducting various training missions across Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. The exercise focuses on increasing interoperability and synchronizing complex operations between allied air and ground forces through airborne and air assault missions.

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    Date Taken: 09.05.2014
    Date Posted: 12.30.2014 19:30
    Photo ID: 1711075
    VIRIN: 140905-A-DB402-125
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