RELEASE #2008-07-03-02 July 3, 2008

PHOTO RELEASE: RECENT JOINT TASK FORCE-EAST ACTIVITIES

Photos by Spc. Joseph McAtee U.S. Army Public Affairs Office

MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIRBASE, -- Joint Task Force-East is steadily ramping up as U.S. and Romanian servicemembers of the multi-service, multi-national task force led by U.S. Army Europe engage in this year’s combined training, humanitarian projects and other partnership events.

Members of U.S. Army Europe’s B , 1st , 4th Infantry from Hohenfels, and the Romanian army’s 21st Mountain Battalion roll out from Babadag Training Area, Romania to conduct a situational training exercise July 1.

(Left to right) Lt. Gen. Gary D. Speer, U.S. Army Europe acting commanding general; Lt. Gen. Teodor Frunzeti, chief of ; Georgeta Elisabeta Ionescu, Romanian secretary of state; and Nicholas F. Taubman, U.S. ambassador to Romania, participate in a press conference during Distinguished Visitor Day at Joint Task Force-East, on Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase, Romania July 3.

U.S. Army Europe and Romanian Soldiers (left to right) Spc. Nicole M. DeYoung, 212th Combat Support Hospital, 1st Lt. Thorian Stanciu, Romanian Civil Military Company, Sgt. Whitney A. Knowles, 212th CSH, and 1st Lt. Ioan Timonea, Romanian 21st Mountain Battalion, screen residents of Babadag, Romania during a Humanitarian Civic Assistance mission July 1. The Soldiers, part of Joint Task Force-East, were in Babadag for the first in a series of HCA missions JTFE have planned this summer.

Members of U.S. Army’s B Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry from Hohenfels, Germany, and the Romanian army’s 21st Mountain Battalion mass for a safety briefing before participating in a situational training exercise at Babadag Training Area, Romania July 1. The training simulated reacting to fire while on foot patrol.

Staff Sgt. Jonathan R. Ivie of the Heidelberg (Germany) Medical Department Activity checks the eyes of a local resident during a Humanitarian Civic Assistance visit to Babadag, Romania, July 1. The Babadag mission was the first of several the HCA team, composed of U.S. and Romanian Soldiers from Joint Task Force- East, has planned for towns in the region this summer.

Sgt. Edward Wine Jr. of Hohenfels, Germany’s B Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry, catches up with his team during a situational training exercise near Babadag Training Area, Romania, June 30.

(Left to right) Maj. Gen. Jack B. Egginton, vice commander of 3rd Air Force; Maj. Gen. P.K. (Ken) Keen, director of the U.S. European Command's European Plans and Operations Center; and Vice Adm. Richard K. Gallagher, EUCOM deputy commander, tour Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase, Romania July 3 during Distinguished Visitor Day events on the base.

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