TIBLISI, Republic of Georgia -- Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and State Security Services, Republic of Georgia, collect simulated biohazard samples during Diablo Shield, a joint United States European Command and Federal Bureau of Investigation training event, April 2017. Diablo Shield is part of Diablo Pathways, a larger series of training events and practical exercises in Europe designed to assist partner nations with identifying and interdicting regional proliferation routes and logistical nodes posed by many different threats. This training event was also held in partners
TIBLISI, Republic of Georgia -- Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and State Security Services, Republic of Georgia, collect simulated biohazard samples during Diablo Shield, a joint United States European Command and Federal Bureau of Investigation training event, April 2017. Diablo Shield is part of Diablo Pathways, a larger series of training events and practical exercises in Europe designed to assist partner nations with identifying and interdicting regional proliferation routes and logistical nodes posed by many different threats. This training event was also held in partnership with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and included: operational awareness in contaminated environments; gathering and preserving contaminated evidence; and information sharing with the intent of furthering intelligence collection. This training event was also held in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of cooperation. EUCOM regularly conducts training events with partner nations and is one of the United States' two forward-deployed Geographic Combatant Commands whose area of focus covers almost one-fifth of the planet, including all of Europe, large portions of Asia, parts of the Middle East and the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. The command is responsible for military relations with NATO and 51countries with a total population of close to a billion people. ( Air Force Photo by Staff Sergeant Logan Carlson).
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