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Headline: U.S. Marines Female Engagement Team

Caption: PICTURE SHOWS: U.S. Marines, assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Female Engagement Team, and Romanian troops fire each other’s weapons systems during a live-fire exercise at Capu Midia training grounds in Romania. ...... These fascinating images show the work of the U.S. Marine Female Engagement Team this week. Assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), the outfit have been interacting with their Romanian counterparts at the country's Capu Midia training grounds during exercise Spring Storm 2017. Spring Storm has seen around 1,200 US and Romanian troops simulating defence of the Romanian Black Sea coastline and urban areas. The Marines trained for three days with their female Romanian counterparts in radio communication, detainee handling, personal security detail, tactical site exploitation and more, culminating in a live-fire rifle and pistol swap between the two forces. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations. The Female Engagement Team concept reportedly proved successful during wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Deployed in small detachments with male infantry units, one of their goals is to collect information from families and communicate with women without breaking cultural taboos.

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