Lieutenant General Sat Tokpakbaev, the Kazakhstan Minister of Defense, addresses participants at the opening ceremonies of CENTRASBAT 2000 in Kazakhstan on Sept. 13, 2000. CENTRASBAT is a multi-national peacekeeping and humanitarian relief exercise sponsored by US Central Command (US CENTCOM) and hosted by former Soviet Republic Kazakhstan in Central Asia, from Sept. 11-20. CENTRASBAT will test US and Central Asian units combat readiness and ability to conduct peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, as well as develop and build cooperative relationships between the respective states and assist in laying the foundation for future peacekeeping and humanitarian operations
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Subject Operation/Series: CENTRASBAT 2000
Base: Ili Base Camp, Almaty
Country: Kazakhstan (KAZ)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jeremy T. Lock, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
13/09/2000
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