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    Flower-laying ceremony commemorates 1st Latvian commander

    RIGA, LATVIA

    03.06.2015

    Photo by Sgt. Katie Eggers 

    157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade

    1st Sgt. Miguel Antia, the top enlisted member of Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, is greeted by Defense Minister Raimonds Vejonis at a flower-laying ceremony March 6 at the Oskars Kalpaks monument in Riga, Latvia. The ceremony commemorates the death of Oskars Kalpaks, the first commander of the 1st Latvian Independent Battalion, known as “Kalpaks Battalion.” Kalpaks Battalion stopped the Bolshevik invasion of Latvia. Kalpaks died in 1919. (Headquarters and Headquarters Company 157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade photo by Sgt. Katie Eggers/Released)

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    Date Taken: 03.06.2015
    Date Posted: 03.08.2015 07:07
    Photo ID: 1802581
    VIRIN: 150306-Z-ON199-047
    Resolution: 4288x2848
    Size: 6.72 MB
    Location: RIGA, LV

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