Live fire exercise with US, Serbian and Bulgarian troops [Image 9 of 10]

NOVO SELO, BULGARIA

06.23.2011

Photo by Cpl. Tatum Vayavananda 

U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa     

After perimeter security is set up by their Bulgarian counterparts, a Serbian fire team rushes into a building of an urban-combat environment during a combined-forces cordon, search and seizure exercise being taught by U.S. Marines of Black Sea Rotational Force 11. The Black Sea Marines conducted training with partner nations in counterinsurgency and peacekeeping operations with the Bulgarian 38th Infantry Battalion, 2nd Light Infantry Brigade, and the Serbian 21st Mechanized Infantry Battalion, 2nd Brigade, to build the military capacity of partner and allied nations in the Black Sea, Balkan and Caucasus regions. The Bulgarian unit is scheduled to deploy to the Kabul province of Afghanistan this summer while the Serbian unit is scheduled to deploy to Cyprus in the near future. The training was conducted in Novo Selo's 55-square-mile training area that features designated ranges for machine guns, RPGs and combat marksmanship, vast land for patrolling and convoy operations, and dedicated urban combat environments for training in military operations in urban terrain and cordon, search, and seizure.

• Date Taken: 06.23.2011
• Date Posted: 06.27.2011 04:48
• Photo ID: 421020
• VIRIN: 110623-M-3545V-156
• Resolution: 3504x2336
• Size: 3.52 MB
• Location: NOVO SELO, BG