Members of the Georgia Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry spent this year’s annual training in Germany training with their Bulgarian counterparts.

The three-week deployment which began in mid-Septmeber included homeland defense and crowd control training, live fire exercises, squad and platoon movement, and land navigation training. The overseas training included 130 soldiers from Companies C and D of the 1/121st Infantry, along with the Scout Platoon from the battalion’s Headquarters Company.

Pictured at left are the Georgia Guardsmen (on the right)  working with Bulgarian soldiers (at left in darker uniforms) during crowd control exercises. (Photo courtesy CSM Neil Russell, state Command Sergeant Major)

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121st soldiers train in Germany