Partnership for Peace (PfP) aims to enhance cooperation and stability in central and eastern European countries while increasing interoperability between partner nations and NATO.
CINCU, Romania -- In November of 1990, as the United States and its allies were preparing for war with Iraq, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Ernest T. Cook Jr. said, "Logistics is the hard part of fighting a war." While it may be the hard part of fighting a war, it is also the hard part of conducting an exercise; especially one half-way around the world.
The Strategic Airlift Capability Heavy Airlift Wing has been executing several airlift missions with its Boeing C-17 Globemaster III long range cargo jets to support the expanded land force training activities of the SAC nations’ armed forces in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
12 American F-16s arrived at the 32nd Air Base in Łask, Poland on March 13, 2014, for joint Polish-American exercises to augment the United States Air Force Aviation Detachment.
The Director of U.S. European Command Directorate of Logistics is the newly-elected Chairman of the Board for the Multinational Logistics Coordination Centre and in this blog he talks about his visit to the centre and the benefits it brings to the members and USEUCOM.
LOGEX was held at the Finnish Defence Forces International Center in Tuusula, Finland, Dec. 2 - 13, 2013, with the aim to enhance interoperability among participants in the planning and execution of forming, deploying, sustaining and redeploying units.
Recently I have read of concern in Poland of decreasing U.S. engagement due to the U.S. “rebalance” to Asia, thereby losing interest in Poland and Europe as strategic partners.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
Two National Guard and three civilian nurses from North Carolina are sharing expertise this week with their Moldovan counterparts at the Ministries of Defense and Health.
On Sept. 20, a closing ceremony at the Joint Military Training Command on U.S. Army Garrison Grafenwoehr, Germany, ended the 18th year of the world’s largest military communications exercise, Combined Endeavor 2012.
The Joint Multinational Training Command, or JMTC, here, is hosting more than 40 nations and multinational organizations participating in Combined Endeavor for the third year in a row.
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany - Senior Enlisted Personnel from across the region have gathered at the DoD's George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies here to discuss their profession and share ideas on current topics as well as the future. Jason Tudor reports.
The vision three years ago was to bring twelve nations together with a common goal and commitment to bring Strategic Airlift Capability to allies across the globe.
USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) is hosting two Turkish Naval Academy midshipmen as part of the Foreign Exchange Midshipmen Program during Exercise Sea Breeze 2012 (SB12).
The guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) departed Odessa, Ukraine, July 12, after a 4-day port visit in support of Exercise Sea Breeze 2012 (SB12), the largest multinational maritime exercise this year in the Black Sea.
Exercise Sea Breeze 2012 (SB12) medical staff visited the Military Medical Clinical Center of the Southern Region (MMCC-SR) of Ukraine in Odessa for an educational opportunity, July 11.
Vice Adm. Frank C. Pandolfe, commander, U.S. 6th Fleet, commemorated the start of the Ukrainian-led, international maritime exercise Sea Breeze 2012 (SB12) at the opening ceremony, July 9.
Sailors from the guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) painted and removed weeds to help restore a play area at Lastochka Recuperative Home in Odessa, Ukraine, July 11.
Representatives and planners from 36 NATO and Partnership for Peace countries began the week- long final planning conference for Combined Endeavor 2012 today in Budva, Montenegro.
The U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia and the Chief of Defense of the Republic of Macedonian Army observed training at the NATO-led multi-national exercises here May 23, 2012.
Increasing our partners’ cyber defense postures to protect and defend against threats and vulnerabilities which disrupt free use of the global information grid is a top priority here at EUCOM where we are committed to building enduring cyber defense partnerships with Albania and other NATO and Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries.
Representatives of the military medical community from 11 Partnership for Peace and NATO countries met to discuss common problems and solutions within the career field here April 18 - 20.
The week-long mid planning conference for exercise Combined Endeavor 2012 (CE12), U.S. European Command’s largest communications interoperability exercise, began today with more than 300 participants attending to continue the planning and testing for this year’s exercise.
For this, the second of five scheduled LOGEX workshops, we drove to a training center in Danilovgrad, Montenegro, to meet with 17 Montenegro military personnel and observers from Armenia, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Serbia.
Combined Endeavor 2011 is the world's largest communications interoperability exercise, preparing international forces' command, control, communications and computer systems for multinational operations. Hosted by USEUCOM, this year's exercise has made great strides in moving from functional testing towards operational testing.
Cyber Endeavor is the United States European Command's paramount cyber security collaboration, familiarization and engagement program designed to strengthen partner nation cyber defense capacities through seminars, events and exercise support. Cyber Endeavor builds cyber defense partnerships with NATO, partner nations, academia and industry. Its purpose is to improve force readiness for deployment in support of exercises, multinational crisis response and future missions.
Service members of Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia are working alongside more than 35 other nations from around the world to enhance interoperability and obtain different techniques to operate during Combined Endeavor 2011, which began Sept. 8, in Grafenwoehr, Germany.
Service members of the Spanish armed forces are expanding their communications skills and strengthening relationships with more than 35 other nations from around the world during Combined Endeavor 2011, which began, Sept. 8, in Grafenwoehr, Germany.
72nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion participated in Cyber Endeavor a portion of Combined Endeavor 11 which is a multinational exercise from Sept. 9-22, 2011 in Grafenwoehr, Germany.
In addition to improving their telecommunication systems, a new battle harness that tracks troop movement in conjunction with the Blue Force tracker system is being tested.
One week after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the Ohio National Guard’s partnership with the Serbian military, the Ohio Guard hosted a bilateral defense consultation Oct. 18 at its joint force headquarters in northwest Columbus.
Servicemembers of ten nations, including the United States, snapped to attention in formation on the parade ground here for the opening ceremonies of MEDCEUR 2010, a large-scale medical exercise for central and eastern Europe.