900 U.S. troops attending joint training in Bulgaria

[unhappycamper]

900 U.S. troops attending joint training in Bulgaria
By Mark Abramson, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Hundreds of servicemen and women are in Eastern Europe, familiarizing themselves with a new ally.

Joint Task Force-East — which includes 300 troops from the 3-10 Bulgarian Infantry Battalion — is training from mid-August to Oct. 17 at the Novo Selo Training Area in Bulgaria. A ceremony was held Sept. 1 to mark the official start of the joint exercise.

"We are trying to enhance the abilities of the Bulgarians and the U.S. to work together," said Army Maj. Jennifer Johnson, the joint task force’s public affairs officer. "We got some things to learn from them and they got some things to learn from the U.S."

The United States and Bulgaria held a similar two-week training exercise last summer called Proof of Principle.

"This year, it’s a bigger rotation (of U.S. troops) and we are staying here two months," Johnson said.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=57284

[AnnaLouise]

1. California's fire prevention planes are in Iraq.

California's fire prevention planes are in Iraq.. as are those of several
other states...
'we're waist deep in the big muddy and the damn fool says to press on'

Pete Seeger