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Caption:
HMMWV's (Highly Mobile Multi-Wheeled Vehicle's) are offloaded from a
piece of literage during Baltic Challenge '97. 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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