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Ukrainians training with US forces have their own lessons to share
YAVORIV, Ukraine — With two combat deployments under his belt, U.S. Army Capt. Zachary Savarie came to western Ukraine to train local forces. He soon found his students had lessons of their own to share.
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SICILY-BASED MARINES CLIMB EUROPE’S TALLEST ACTIVE VOLCANO
NAVAL AIR STATION SIGONELLA, Sicily – On the evening of Oct. 23 the peak of Mount Etna burned a deep red, spewing streams of flame and lava hundreds of feet in the air.
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UKRPhoto06YAVORIV, Ukraine – Cpl. Colt Smith, a paratrooper with the 173 Airborne Regiment, and a Ukrainian translator stand behind a guardsman undergoing training during a simulatedpatrol July 9 at a training facility in western Ukraine. About300 American paratroopers have been training Ukrainian soldiers forthe fight against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine sinceApril.Jad Sleiman / Stars and Stripes
DANILOVGRAD, Montenegro – Staff Sgt. Chris Stevens, a personnel retrieval and processing specialist with Detachment PRP Smyrna, Ga., contemplates his next move while playing Montenegrin chess great, Bozidar Ivanovic aboard the Danilovgrad Training Base in central Montenegro. The men played their game during the sports day of Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe 2010. The exercise brings together nearly 300 service members from the armed forces of the U.S. and nine central and eastern European countries together for mass casualty scenario response training. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jad Sleiman
