Xinhua News Agency
September 26, 2014
Over 2,100 troops to take part in military exercise in Latvia
RIGA: More than 2,100 troops from Latvia, the US, Estonia, Greece, the UK and Norway will join the Silver Arrow 2014 military exercise which is due to take place in Latvia next week, a military news website reported Friday.
The training exercise was scheduled to take place at Adazi Military Training Area outside Riga from September 29 to October 6, with Latvian Defence Minister Raimonds Vejonis and Chief of Defence Lt. Gen. Raimonds Graube expected to attend the opening ceremony, Latvian Defence Ministry told the Baltic News Service (BNS).
The active phase of the military exercise will take place from October 3-5 with the participation of the 1st and 2nd Infantry Brigades of the Latvian Ground Forces and the Combat Support Battalion, as well as Latvian home guard units. The drills are intended to enhance soldiers’ conventional warfare skills.
Commander of the Silver Arrow exercise Col. Martins Liberts indicated to BNS that from an annual national military training exercise, Silver Arrow has grown into multinational manoeuvres which are being held according to a plan worked out at the command headquarters of NATO’s Steadfast Jazz exercise in Latvia last year.
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