Representatives from the Partner Nations proudly display their own country's colors during the closing ceremony of Exercise COOPERATIVE OSPREY '96. COOPERATIVE OSPREY is a United States Atlantic Command sponsored exercise that was conducted by Marine Forces Atlantic, in August 1996, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. COOPERATIVE OSPREY, under the Partnership for Peace (PfP) program, provides interoperability training in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations along NATO/IFOR standards, with an emphasis on individual and collective skills. The three NATO countries that provided troops are the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands. The 16 "Partnership for Peace" nations that...
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[Complete] Scene Caption: Representatives from the Partner Nations proudly display their own country's colors during the closing ceremony of Exercise COOPERATIVE OSPREY '96. COOPERATIVE OSPREY is a United States Atlantic Command sponsored exercise that was conducted by Marine Forces Atlantic, in August 1996, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. COOPERATIVE OSPREY, under the Partnership for Peace (PfP) program, provides interoperability training in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations along NATO/IFOR standards, with an emphasis on individual and collective skills. The three NATO countries that provided troops are the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands. The 16 "Partnership for Peace" nations that contributed 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 provided observers to the exercise: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Czech Republic, and Denmark.
Subject Operation/Series: COOPERATIVE OSPREY
Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune
State: North Carolina (NC)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT M. A. Jones, USA
Release Status: Released to Public
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