JOINT HEADQUARTERS SOUTHEAST CREST
JOINT HEADQUARTERS SOUTHEAST

Izmir, Turkey

EXERCISE COOPERATIVE DETERMINATION - 29 NOVEMBER 1999

 

(photo by Sergeant William Lee)

 LEFT:  Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania, delivers remarks during the opening ceremony of Exercise Cooperative Determination 99.

 

RIGHT:  General Tamer Akbas, Commander, Joint Command Southeast (left), greets Romanian President Emil Constantinescu at the entrance to Polivalenta Hall in Bucharest just prior to the opening ceremony of Exercise Cooperative Determination 99.

   (photo by Sergeant Omer Cankaya)

 

(photo by Sergeant William Lee)

 LEFT:  General Tamer Akbas, Commander, Joint Command Southeast, salutes the Romanian Honor Guard during the opening ceremony of Exercise Cooperative Determination 99. To his immediate right is Brigadier General Can Teler, commander of  the exercise's multinational brigade.

 

BELOW:  Dignitaries on the reviewing stand during the opening  ceremony included (from left to right) Major General Zannie O. Smith, Deputy Commander, Joint Command Southeast; General Tamer Akbas, Commander, Joint Command Southeast; Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania; Victor Babiuc, Romanian Minister of Defense; Army Corps General Constantin Degeratu, Chief of the Romanian General Staff; Brigadier General Rifki Durusoy, Exercise Co-Director; and Senator Nicolai Alexandru, president of the Defense Committee in the Romanian Senate. 

(photo by Eugen Mihai)

 

 

RIGHT:  Opening ceremony participants from 7 NATO and 9 PfP nations, plus the Romanian honor guard and band, prepare to pass in review during the opening ceremony of Exercise Cooperative Determination 99.

 

(photo by Sergeanat William Lee)

 

(photo by Sergeant William Lee

LEFT:  The Romanian national contingent passes in review during the opening ceremony of Exercise Cooperative Determination 99.

 

RIGHT:  The Azerbaijani national contingent passes in review during the opening ceremony of Exercise Cooperative Determination 99.

 

 (photo by Sergeant Omer Cankaya)

 

(photo by Eugen Mihai)

LEFT: Colonel Serge Labbe, Joint Headquarters Southeast, briefs an Italian and a Jordanian officer on the terrain of the exercise's fictitious country of Grafenfels.

 

RIGHT:  The 24 members of the exercise's Press Information Centre - which is staffed by public information officers from Romania, Turkey and the United States.

(photo by Eugen Mihai)

(photo by Sergeant William Lee)

 LEFT:  Statue of Mihai Viteazul in Bucharest, Romania, site of Exercise Cooperative Determination 99.  Mihai Viteazul was the first king of the three united Romanian countries.