A Bulgarian soldier loads a box of weapons onto a bus at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C. on Aug. 12, 1996. The Bulgarian soldiers will be transported to Camp Lejeune, N.C., for Cooperative Osprey '96. Cooperative Osprey '96 is a NATO sponsored exercise as part of the alliance's Partnership for Peace program. The aim of the exercise is to develop interoperability among the participating forces through practice in combined peacekeeping and humanitarian operations. Three NATO countries and 16 Partnership for Peace nations are taking part in the field training exercise.