Caption:
Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAVs), land on the beach while
moving from Range L-5 to LZ Bluebird during Situational Training
Exercise -3, Cooperative Osprey Ô96. STX-3 also
includes firing at the Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer.
Cooperative Osprey '96 is a United States Atlantic Command
sponsored exercise, that will be conducted by Marine Forces Atlantic,
in August 1996 at Camp Lejeune, NC. 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.
Official Combat Camera Imagery by SSG M.A. Jones, 982nd Signal Company,
COMCAM.
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