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Ex Agile Spirit: Georgians and US Marines at Firing Range

Natochannel

July 10, 2015 | 4:47

B-roll of US Marines and Georgian soldiers at firing range at Vaziani Training grounds outside Tbilisi, Georgia. Agile Spirit began on July 8 and will have the closing ceremony on July 22.

U.S. Marines from the Black Sea Rotational Force conduct weapons proficiency training on the .50-caliber machine gun, M249 light machine gun and the AT4-CS light anti-armor weapon during Exercise Agile Spirit15, in Vaziani, Georgia. The objective of the exercise is to enhance NATO interoperability, regional security and preparedness for contingency operations with Georgian Armed Forces in partnership with militaries from five NATO nations, to include the U.S. Marine Corps and military forces from Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania, Armenia and Moldovan observers are also present. (U.S. Army video by Sgt. Nathan Eroh/Released)

Soundbites from Captain Kakhaber Shpetishivili, Georgian Armed Forces and Sgt. Justin Higgins, USMC

B-ROLL SHOT LIST:

1.(00:00) GV of Georgian military training with US Marines at firing range.

2.(1:39) Interview (IN GEORGIAN LANGUAGE) with Captain Kakhaber Shpetishvili, 42 Mechanized Battalion, Georgian Armed Forces
“Politics is not our business. We are military. We carry out our duty. Of course, we support Georgia’s foreign policy course and do our best to fulfill all our tasks. As for “Agile Spirit”, the exercise gives us good opportunity to establish close relationship with foreign partners. This partnership has vital importance that will bring logical results in future. “

3.(2:19) Interview (ENGLISH) Sergeant Higgins, United States Marine Corps: “We have a thing called camaraderie amongst the Marine Corp. I think if we work hand in hand with Georgians and other NATO forces we certainly build that camaraderie amongst forces.”

4.(02:28) GV US Marines firing rockets and machines at Vaziani Training Ground in Georgia.