Brig. Gen. Blake C. Ortner, commanding general of the Virginia National Guard’s 29th Infantry Division and exercise director of Saber Strike 16, meets with Ambassador James D. Melville Jr., Ambassador to Estonia, and Ambassador Nancy Bikoff Pettit, Ambassador to Latvia, June 9, 2016, in Valka-Valga, a border town between Latvia and Estonia. Saber Strike is a long-standing, Army Europe-led cooperative training exercise designed to improve joint operational capability in a range of missions, as well as prepare the 13 participating nations to support multinational contingency opera
Brig. Gen. Blake C. Ortner, commanding general of the Virginia National Guard’s 29th Infantry Division and exercise director of Saber Strike 16, meets with Ambassador James D. Melville Jr., Ambassador to Estonia, and Ambassador Nancy Bikoff Pettit, Ambassador to Latvia, June 9, 2016, in Valka-Valga, a border town between Latvia and Estonia. Saber Strike is a long-standing, Army Europe-led cooperative training exercise designed to improve joint operational capability in a range of missions, as well as prepare the 13 participating nations to support multinational contingency operations. Saber Strike 16 is taking place from May 26- June 21, 2016, in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Army National Guard Soldiers of the 29th Infantry Division from both Maryland and Virginia are operating as an exercise control element, ensuring all units meet their training objectives and helping reallocate resources during the exercise to achieve training objectives. ( Army photo by Staff Sgt. Francis O'Brien, 29th Infantry Division)
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