Female NATO allies join together

Lance Cpl. Lauren Whitney speaks with female Latvian army medics before a base defense exercise during Saber Strike 2012. Whitney, a combat photographer temporarily assigned to 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, spoke with the women after they arrived to provide real-life medical support for her and other Marines assigned to the Pennsylvania-based 3/25. Saber Strike 2012 is a multinational, tactical field training and command post exercise that involves more than 2,000 personnel from the U.S. Army's 2nd Cavalry Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, the 4th U.S. Marine Division, the 127th Wing of the Michigan Air National Guard, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian armed forces, with contingents from Canada, Finland, France and the U.K. The exercise, led by U.S. Army Europe, is designed to enhance joint and combined interoperability between the U.S. Forces and partner nations, and will help prepare participants to operate successfully in a joint, multinational, interagency, integrated environment.