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Caption:
A AN-TSC 93B ( Tactical Satelite Communication System ) provides
sattelite communications out of the Paldiski, Estonia base camp, during
Baltic Challenge '97. This system is operated by 6th
Communications Battalion, based out of New York City , New York.
Baltic Challenge '97 is a multinational exercise conducted in the
spirit of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) iniative. More than
2600 military personnel from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia,
Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, and the U.S.A., will participate in the
second "in the spirit of PfP" land exercises conducted in the Baltic
region. Co-Commanders for the exercise being held in Paldiski,
Estonia are Colonel Oscar Mark, Estonian Defense Forces and Colonel
D.L. Andrews, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. While Baltic Challenge
'97 will conduct training along peacekeeping/humanitarian assistance
mission standards, significant U.S. Navy and Marine Corps capabilities
never exercised in Europe will be performed as well, to include the use
of equipment from the Marine Corps Norway Air-Landed Marine
Expeditionary Brigade (NALMEB), and equipment being off-loaded from the
Marine Corps Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS).
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