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English: A Rough Terrain Cargo Handler crawls onto a lighter craft as it prepares to pull an ISO container brought ashore from the S.S. Sgt. Matej Kocak in Paldiski, Estonia, on July 15, 1997, for Exercise Baltic Challenge 97. Baltic Challenge '97 is a multinational exercise conducted as a NATO Partnership for Peace initiative involving more than 2,600 military personnel from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. The focus of the training is peacekeeping tasks and humanitarian assistance operations. The lighter craft are being used to move equipment from the Maritime Prepositioning Ships to the exercise area on the beach. |
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Date | Taken on 15 July 1997 | ||||
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English: Staff Sgt. M.T. Huff, U.S. Marine Corps |
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Image title | A RatCH (Rough Terrain Cargo Handler) prepares to pull an ISO container off of a piece of literage, brought ashore from the SS Sgt. Matej Kocak during Baltic Challenge '97. Baltic Challenge '97 is a multinational exercise conducted in the spirit of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) iniative. More than 2600 military personnel from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, and the U.S.A., will participate in the second "in the spirit of PfP" land exercises conducted in the Baltic region. Co-Commanders for the exercise being held in Paldiski, Estonia are Colonel Oscar Mark, Estonian Defense Forces and Colonel D.L. Andrews, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. While Baltic Challenge '97 will conduct training along peacekeeping/humanitarian assistance mission standards, significant U.S. Navy and Marine Corps capabilities never exercised in Europe will be performed as well, to include the use of equipment from the Marine Corps Norway Air-Landed Marine Expeditionary Brigade (NALMEB), and equipment being off-loaded from the Marine Corps Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS). |
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Short title | 970715-M-0023H-005 |
Date and time of data generation | 15 July 1997 |
City shown | Paldiski |
IIM version | 2 |
Country shown | EST |
Original transmission location code | 970715-M-0023H-005 |