 The opening ceremony for Cooperative Spirit 2008 took place Saturday, September 12th to officially kick off the Coalition Forces training test held in Hohenfels, Germany. ABCA is a combination of American, British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand infantry soldiers. This specific training is designed to test interoperability. First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment Private Adrian Jones thinks the experience the cooperative spirit offers is unparalleled. I think it's for everyone, it's a good opportunity to enhance on the skills that we've been taught from a basic level and now in a battalion environment with other nations that have different SOPs and different ways of training but we have to also work together as a team in a cooperative environment and do a good job. The Force on Force section of training begins next week.