U.S. Marines and soldiers from the Georgian 4th Infantry Brigade will participate in a combined military exercise called AGILE SPIRIT 2012 in the Vaziani Training Area from March 10 - 24. The focus of the exercise, which will involve more than 300 Marines from the Marine Corps' Black Sea Rotational Force 12 based in Constanta, Romania, and the Georgian Armed Forces, is to increase interoperability between the forces and exchange and enhance each other's capacity in counterinsurgency and peacekeeping operations, including small unit tactics, convoy operations, and counter-Improvised Explosive Device training.
AGILE SPIRIT has become an annual exercise and supplements other elements of our military partnership with Georgia, such as the Georgia Deployment Program, which is a U.S. Marine Corps program that prepares Georgian Armed Forces to deploy to Afghanistan in support of the International Security Assistance Force.
Black Sea Rotational Force 12 is a rotational deployment of Marines to the Black Sea, Balkan and Caucasus regions to work with partner and allied nations to help build their military capacity, promote stability throughout the region, and build enduring partnerships with 19 nations throughout Eastern Europe. For more information visit the unit's Facebook page at: http://facebook.com/BSRFMarines.
The predominance of BSRF Marines and sailors are from 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, based out of San Antonio, Texas,
