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Marine Capt. Brian Hart, officer-in-charge of the Georgia Liaison Team attached with the Republic of Georgia's 42nd Light Infantry Battalion, Bravo Co., gives a few pointers a to some of the Bravo Co. leaders during an out-of-sector battalion clearance operation outside a training village aboard Joint Multinational Readiness Center Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 14. Captain Hart has been mentoring and advising the Georgian soldiers for more than five months. He is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. The Mission Rehearsal Exercise is the culminating event for the Republic of Georgia's 33rd and 42nd Light Infantry Battalion prior to deploying to Afghanistan to conduct security operations in support of the Georgia Deployment Program - International Security Assistance Force (GDP-ISAF). The total training exercise ran from Jan. 22 - Feb 22. - Marine Capt. Brian Hart, officer-in-charge of the Georgia Liaison Team attached with the Republic of Georgia's 42nd Light Infantry Battalion, Bravo Co., gives a few pointers a to some of the Bravo Co. leaders during an out-of-sector battalion clearance operation outside a training village aboard Joint Multinational Readiness Center Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 14. Captain Hart has been mentoring and advising the Georgian soldiers for more than five months. He is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. The Mission Rehearsal Exercise is the culminating event for the Republic of Georgia's 33rd and 42nd Light Infantry Battalion prior to deploying to Afghanistan to conduct security operations in support of the Georgia Deployment Program - International Security Assistance Force (GDP-ISAF). The total training exercise ran from Jan. 22 - Feb 22.

Two Georgian soldiers from Scout Platoon, Delta Co., 23rd Light Infantry Battalion keep a watchful eye on the surrounding area after the platoon engaged in a firefight with enemy insurgents while on a reconnaissance mission for a 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. - Two Georgian soldiers from Scout Platoon, Delta Co., 23rd Light Infantry Battalion keep a watchful eye on the surrounding area after the platoon engaged in a firefight with enemy insurgents while on a reconnaissance mission for a 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.

U.S. Marine 2nd Lt. Kevin Kelly, an observer controller for the Georgian 23rd Light Infantry Battalion's mission rehearsal exercise, back briefs one of the leaders for Scout Platoon, Delta Co., after one of the firefights with enemy insurgents. Kelly is a ground intelligence officer at 2nd Marine Division in Camp Lejeune, N.C. He is a native of Potomac, Maryland and a graduate of College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. - U.S. Marine 2nd Lt. Kevin Kelly, an observer controller for the Georgian 23rd Light Infantry Battalion's mission rehearsal exercise, back briefs one of the leaders for Scout Platoon, Delta Co., after one of the firefights with enemy insurgents. Kelly is a ground intelligence officer at 2nd Marine Division in Camp Lejeune, N.C. He is a native of Potomac, Maryland and a graduate of College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.

Two Georgian soldiers from the 23rd Light Infantry Battalion keep a watchful eye on the surrounding area after a car bomb detonates at the gates of the unit's Forward Operating Base (FOB) at a mission rehearsal exercise at Joint Multinational Readiness Center Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 16. - Two Georgian soldiers from the 23rd Light Infantry Battalion keep a watchful eye on the surrounding area after a car bomb detonates at the gates of the unit's Forward Operating Base (FOB) at a mission rehearsal exercise at Joint Multinational Readiness Center Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 16.