Hi all, I am a new member that has been lurking around for a while. I can give you a little more info about Operation "Cooperative Nugget" because I was involved in it. It was basically a joint training mission held in 1997 to train company and smaller size units for peacekeeping missions in Bosnia. There were 22 separate NATO member countries that sent 40 man units to Fort Polk LA. Most of the countries were former Soviet block countries. The counties involved were Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. It was done at Ft. Polk because we had a mock up that resembled a sector of Bosnia. Some of the foreign troops were for the lack of better words "pathetic" compered to U.S. troops. We worked with the Georgian troops a lot. Their AK-47s were very beet up and old. One of the Georgian solders had made a comment that he liked the America. His commander overheard him and started counselling him with the back of his hand. We had to tell the commander not to do that anymore because it was not kosher and was actually a crime. If I remember it correctly that soldier and two others went AWAL and may still be in the country for all I know.

As for the thread subject of Russians being in the US I highly doubt it. Why would the Russian government want to help our government keep the peace? I believe PM Putin would delight in seeing our country fall into turmoil.