Baltic soldier practices recovering personnel from a mine field.
As his fellow soldiers watch, a member of the Baltic platoon, Company 6, practices recovery of personnel in a mine field during a Mine Awareness Situational Training Exercise at Camp Lejeune, N.C., on Aug. 16, 1996 as part of 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.