Participants in COOPERATIVE OSPREY 96 set up concertina wire at Davis Airfield, North Carolina, for perimeter defense during Final Training Exercise (FTX) III. FTX III encompasses Airfield Security, Convoy Operations, and Humanitarian Assistance. 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.
Location
MARINE CORPS BASE, CAMP LEJEUNE, NORTH CAROLINA (NC) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)
== Summary == ;Description:Czech soldiers with Sa vz. 58 rifles ;Date: 24 Aug 1996 ;Source: http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/ ;Source's ID: DMSD0200646 960824M0707S003 ;Original caption:Participants in COOPERATIVE OSPREY 96 set up concertina wire at Davis