Exercise participants pick up trash in Macedonian town

CAMP PEPELISHTE, Macedonia -- Airman 1st Class Wintrece Whitt, 1st Combat Communications Squadron out of Ramstein Air Base, Germany, picks up gardening debris and trash along a road in Negotino, Macedonia, as part of the Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe 2011 volunteer day June 8. An annual Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-sponsored regional and multilateral exercise, MEDCEUR is designed to provide medical training and operational experience in a deployed environment for U.S. and partner nations. The countries participating in this year’s MEDCEUR are Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia and Norway. The exercise will include both classroom and hands-on training and run until June 15. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Nadine Y. Barclay)

Exercise participants pick up trash in Macedonian town

CAMP PEPELISHTE, Macedonia -- U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Lucien Koefoed, Personnel Retrieval and Processing Company mortuary affairs specialist, collects trash during the Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe 2011 volunteer day June 8. An annual Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-sponsored regional and multilateral exercise, MEDCEUR is designed to provide medical training and operational experience in a deployed environment for U.S. and partner nations. The countries participating in this year’s MEDCEUR are Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia and Norway. The exercise will include both classroom and hands-on training and run until June 15. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Nadine Y. Barclay)

U.S. Medics build field hospital

CAMP PEPELISHTE, Macedonia -- Airmen from U.S. Air Forces in Europe hook a generator up to a field hospital in preparation for Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe 2011 June 7. An annual Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-sponsored regional and multilateral exercise, MEDCEUR is designed to provide medical training and operational experience in a deployed environment for U.S. and partner nations. The countries participating in this year?s MEDCEUR are Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia and Norway. The exercise will include both classroom and hands-on training and run until June 15. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Nadine Y. Barclay)

U.S. Medics build field hospital

CAMP PEPELISHTE, Macedonia -- Medical Airmen from U.S. Air Forces in Europe build a field hospital in preparation for Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe 2011 June 7. An annual Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-sponsored regional and multilateral exercise, MEDCEUR is designed to provide medical training and operational experience in a deployed environment for U.S. and partner nations. The countries participating in this year?s MEDCEUR are Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia and Norway. The exercise will include both classroom and hands-on training and run until June 15. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Nadine Y. Barclay)

U.S. Medics build field hospital

CAMP PEPELISHTE, Macedonia -- Medical Airmen with U.S. Air Forces in Europe run electrical lines for their field hospital in preparation for Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe 2011 June 7. An annual Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-sponsored regional and multilateral exercise, MEDCEUR is designed to provide medical training and operational experience in a deployed environment for U.S. and partner nations. The countries participating in this year?s MEDCEUR are Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia and Norway. The exercise will include both classroom and hands-on training and run until June 15. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Julius Delos Reyes)

U.S. Medics build field hospital

CAMP PEPELISHTE, Macedonia -- Chief Master Sgt. Joshua Mills, 3rd Air Force Surgeon General?s Office chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe medical logistics functional manager and senior Air Force enlisted advisor here, ties down a field hospital in preparation for Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe 2011 June 7. An annual Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-sponsored regional and multilateral exercise, MEDCEUR is designed to provide medical training and operational experience in a deployed environment for U.S. and partner nations. The countries participating in this year?s MEDCEUR are Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia and Norway. The exercise will include both classroom and hands-on training and run until June 15. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Julius Delos Reyes)