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Caption:
A Landing Craft Air Cushioned (LCAC) pulls in to Mile Hammock Bay, to
pull Cooperative Osprey Ô96 troops out to the USS Pensacola for
training in shipboard life and amphibious operations during the
transition from Situational Training Exercise - 5 and Situational
Training Exercise -6. Shown in the air is CH-46 Sea Knight
helicopters. 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 LCpl.
M.A. Sunderland, 2d Marine Division Combat Camera Unit.
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