Latvian Soldiers take a "time out" in training to examine the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), a weapon that is used only by American soldiers. Baltic Challenge '97 is a multinational exercise conducted in the spirit of NATO's Partnership for Peace initiative. More than 2600 military personnel from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, and the US will participate in the second PfP land exercise conducted in the Baltic region
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: Baltic Challenge '97
Base: Paldiski
Country: Estonia (EST)
Scene Camera Operator: LCPL. J. R. Adkins
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
16/07/1997
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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