Agile Spirit ۲۰۱۲ joint military exercises of Georgian troops and U.S. Marines at the Vaziani military base outside Tbilisi involved training on live-fire ranges, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, cordon and search, combat lifesaving skills, convoy operations and tactics in countering improvised explosive devices. Agile Spirit exercises has become an annual military drill supplementing other trainings such as preparing Georgian soldiers by the U.S. Marine Corps for deployment in Afghanistan.