Lt. Col. Scott Meyers, battalion commander assigned to the 1st Battalion, 119th Field Artillery Regiment, Michigan National Guard, stands in front of his troops during the closing ceremony of Operation Summer Shield XII, March 31, 2015, near Adazi, Latvia. Operation Summer Shield XII is a multinational NATO training exercise whose participants include U.S. active duty Army, Reserve, and National Guard, U.S. Marines, and units from Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Luxembourg and Canada. Michigan and Latvia have worked together in the State Partnership Program for 23 years. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kimberly Bratic, Michigan National Guard/Released)