Army Spc. Allan Styers, an infantryman with 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment and a native of Port Huron, Michigan, replicated opposing enemy forces during the Georgian 23rd Light Infantry Battalion’s mission rehearsal exercise at Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 17. The MRE is the culminating event for the Republic of Georgia’s 23rd Light Infantry Battalion prior to deploying to Afghanistan to conduct counterinsurgency operations in support of the Georgia Deployment Program – International Security Assistance Force (GDP-ISAF). The total training exercise runs Feb. 1 – 24.


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