A Canadian soldier armed with an C9A1 light machine gun provides cover fire for his platoon members during Situational Training Exercise 2, Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT), COOPERATIVE OSPREY 96. Cooperative Osprey is a United States Atlantic Command sponsored exercise, that is 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.
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(<span lang="en" dir="ltr">Original text: <i><bdi lang="">LCPL C.E. ROLFES, USMC</bdi></i></span>)
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(<span lang="en" dir="ltr">Original text: <i><bdi lang="">21 Aug 1996</bdi></i></span>)
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