Staff Sgt. Zach Smith, a convoy commander with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, and Springfield, Mo., native, quizzes role-player Sgt. James Gladwell, a Rogers, Ark., native, about possible insurgent activity in the area during a patrol conducted June 15 as part of exercise Sea Breeze 2011.::r::::n:: Sea Breeze is an annual combined air, land and maritime exercise with the goals of enhancing amphibious operations, improving multinational maritime capabilities and fostering trust and cooperation among participating nations. This year’s exercise includes participants from the United States, Ukraine, Macedonia, Moldova and Georgia and incorporates amphibious operations, maritime interdiction, improvised explosive device and convoy operations and other platoon level training. Marine Forces Europe, based out of Stuttgart, Germany, is the lead U.S. Marine Corps service component for the exercise.::r::::n::