U.S. Marines in riot gear build a human wall in a riot control class.
U.S. Marines in riot gear build a human wall as they demonstrate one of the ways for handling an uncontrollable crowd in a riot control class as part of Exercise Cooperative Osprey '98 at Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, N.C., on June 4, 1998. Cooperative Osprey '98 is a Partnership for Peace situational training exercise designed to improve the interoperability of NATO and partner nations through the practice of combined peacekeeping and humanitarian relief operations. Partner nations include Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Participating NATO nations include Canada, The Netherlands, and the United States.