Changing World Leads to NATO'S Transformation [Image 4 of 4]

CAMP LEJEUNE, NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES

08.24.2004

Photo by Carol Bowers 

Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs           

U.S. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, armed with M16A2 rifles prepare to take back the city during Final Training Exercise 2, Cooperative Osprey 96. Final Training Exercise 2 consists of Military Operations in Urban Terrain, Security and Civil Disturbance Operations. Cooperative Osprey is a United States Atlantic Command sponsored exercise that's 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.

• Date Taken: 08.24.2004
• Date Posted: 04.05.2008 14:07
• Photo ID: 83064
• VIRIN: 960824-M-0416K-005
• Resolution: 1360x1895
• Size: 1.39 MB
• Location: CAMP LEJEUNE, NORTH CAROLINA, US