A Soldier assigned to Georgian Armed Forces, 42nd Battalion

A Soldier assigned to Georgian Armed Forces, 42nd Battalion patrols through a simulated village a cordon and search exercise, recently in Hohenfels, Germany. These soldiers are completing their mission readiness exercise as the final event of the latest rotation of the Georgia Deployment Program-International Security Assistance Force hosted and executed by Marine Forces, Europe, Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group and U.S. Army soldiers stationed at the Joint-Multinational Training Center in Hohenfels, Germany. The GDP-I was started in 2009 to provide security cooperation training to the GAF in preparation for their deployments to Afghanistan where they are responsible for their own area of responsibility and work closely with U.S. Marines in the region.