U.S. Air National Guard troops from Michigan’s 110th and Washington D.C.’s 113th Civil Engineer Squadrons, as part of their annual training, partnered with Latvian military engineers to replace and insulate Ogre 1st High School's roof and install a fence for Adazi High School to improve the local communities.
U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 133rd and 148th Civil Engineering Squadrons and 219th RED HORSE Squadron, along with members of the Croatian army, performed a renovation project along with unloading a much-needed donation of school supplies at an elementary school in Ogulin, Croatia.
Air National Guard Airmen from the Minnesota 133rd and 148th Civil Engineering Squadrons and Montana 219th Red Horse Squadron partnered with the Croatian Army June 20 through July 4, to renovate bathrooms at an elementary school in Ogulin, Croatia.
For three weeks, Moldovan engineers and soldiers of North Carolina National Guard’s 430th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Company trained side by side and shared the latest tactics, techniques and procedures in eliminating landmine hazards in order to return the land to productive economic use and development.
Students learning trades in eastern Macedonian have a newly renovated school to learn in, thanks to a humanitarian effort that included local nongovernmental organizations, the U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. European Command.
Recent media speculation has questioned the cancellation of humanitarian assistance projects in Crimea. The school and hospital renovation projects in question were part of EUCOM’s HA program and would have been solely for the benefit of the local school children and community. Rumors that these projects were an attempt to establish a U.S. military base in the region are patently false.
USEUCOM, together with OFDA, USAID is providing the Joint Humanitarian Operations Course to countries that need a plan when disaster strikes to ensure humanitarian assistance can be delivered in time to save lives.
NATO and partner nations will conduct Exercise Steadfast Jazz 2013 in Latvia and in Poland from 2 - 9 November 2013. The event will mark the culmination of a series of dynamic and demanding exercises designed to train and test troops and commanders from the NATO Response Force (NRF).
The Steadfast series of exercises are part of NATO's efforts to maintain connected and interoperable forces at a high-level of readiness.
To know more about Steadfast Jazz 2013:
http://sj13.nato.int/steadfast-jazz.aspx
Soldiers from the 7th Civil Support Command deployed to this Eastern European nation Sept. 10 for a weeklong assessment of humanitarian assistance projects.
This story announces the completion of a Humanitarian Assistance renovation project at a local school in the village of Starychi in the region of Lviv.
On July 17, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv and Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) celebrated the completion of a Humanitarian Assistance renovation project at a local school in the village of Starychi, Lviv region.
The focus of this year’s exercise will be conducting humanitarian assistance/disaster relief, crisis response, and consequence management operations in response to a natural disaster. More than 300 participants are expected to take part in medical classes, certification courses, a mass casualty response exercise, and an earthquake simulation.
Last week, field water experts from the Minnesota Army National Guard and U.S. European Command traveled to Zagreb, Croatia to conduct a Field Water Treatment Workshop with partners from the Croatian Armed Forces from May 7-9, 2013.
As I assume command of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe and U.S. European Command, I am truly humbled to serve in the position held by such extraordinary leaders as Generals Eisenhower, Ridgway, Shalikashvili, Ralston and most recently Admiral Stavridis.
In his first blog post as commander of U.S. European Command and NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe, Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove today paid tribute to the legacy of his predecessors and stressed the importance of partnership and family.
We are looking forward to the grand opening of the new kitchen and dining facility, hopefully this September for the start of the new school year. The Friends of Lopyan will be there to help celebrate the occasion!
This is the first iteration of a series we're beginning here at EUCOM to let you know what we're doing. What do each of our directorates do? What is the focus of US European Command? Watch this to learn about the wide array of projects the J4 Logistics Directorate is heading.
On November 21, the U.S. Embassy, along with members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Office of Defense Cooperation and Georgian government, cut the ribbon on four water wells in Akhalsopeli, Kvareli region.
October 26, I participated in a ribbon cutting at a school in Tetovo, Macedonia, just north of Skopje. The school is part of a joint USAID-EUCOM initiative in Macedonia to encourage schools to conduct ethnic integration through education.
Four soldiers from the Kansas National Guard are working with a civilian representative from the U.S. Humanitarian Demining Training Center to teach international Humanitarian Mine Action standards to members of the Engineering Companies of the Armenian Peacekeeping Brigades Sept. 18-28.
YEREVAN, Armenia - (Sept. 20, 2012) Sgt. 1st Class Travis Eichhorn, a Pittsburg, Kansas native, gives an update on today's training with humanitarian demining soldiers in Armenia. Kansas National Guardsmen and the HDTC representative are instructing Armenian peacekeepers and engineer battalions on international demining standards as part of the Humanitarian Mine Action program and will assist the Armenian government in developing a national standard operating procedure for demining.
YEREVAN, Armenia - (Sept. 19, 2012) Kansas National Guard Capt. Michael Liotta takes viewers to some on site demining classes with the Armenian engineering and demining battalions. Kansas and Armenia have a long partnership stretching back to Senator Bob Dole being nursed backed to health in World War II by an Armenian doctor and calling for the U.S. to be the first to recognize Armenia’s independence.
Since early August this year, the Ohio National Guard and the Serbian Armed Forces have been teaming up to make improvements to portions of the school and fix the gym, which was damaged to such a degree that it hasn’t been used in more than a year.
Recently, EUCOM partnered with the City and the County Education Department to renovate $380K worth of doors, flooring, windows, interior walls, electrical fixtures and construct playground cover for Pinocchio, Lumea Prichindeilor, and Armonia elementary schools.
On Monday, Judy Garber, U.S. Ambassador to Latvia; members of the U.S. Embassy in Riga and EUCOM; the Latvian Ministry of Interior (State Fire and Rescue Service) and National Guard members; and local government officials broke ground on a EUCOM Humanitarian Assistance project modernizing eight fire and rescue stations in Latvia.
U.S. and Ukrainian officials last week celebrated the completion of two of eight humanitarian aid projects in the Ukraine where a bilateral partnership between U.S. European Command and the government there is improving the lives of Ukrainian citizens.
The recent cold snap here has affected many countries across eastern Europe. SSgt Nathan Parry shows us how the United States is helping one country through a very difficult winter.
Bosnia Military to Military Exchange. U.S. and NATO forces called in for disaster assistance and relief effort due to heavy snowfall and bitter cold temperatures in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District recently awarded three contracts in Latvia to upgrade eight existing fire and rescue stations throughout the country. The contracts, awarded to Koger un Partneri and Ekers SIA, are part of a U.S. European Command-sponsored program to assist Latvia’s State Fire and Rescue Service modernize its facilities.
YEREVAN, Armenia – Two newly renovated medical facilities opened in the Republic of Armenia in the last two weeks of November as part of the U.S. European Command’s Humanitarian Assistance Program.
Just last week, I visited the Krakow School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, which was heavily damaged in the spring floods of 2010, to deliver furniture and pianos donated by the U.S. Government.
Since fall 2008 US Embassy's Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC Latvia) and State Fire and Rescue Service of Latvia (SFRS) have identified and submitted 10 Civic Engagement (Humanitarian Assistance) projects for renovations of fire stations all over Latvia.
On Nov. 7, Municipality Mayor Trajche Dimitriev and Office of Defense Cooperation Chief, Lt. Col. Michael Tarquinto, marked the completion of the construction of a 3-bay service vehicle garage and the renovation of the “Dimche A. Gaberot” Primary School in the city of Demir Kapija.
Members of US Air Forces Europe, US Marine Forces Europe, and Norwegian partners work to load a US Transportation Comand C-17, home-based at Fort Lewis-McChord, Wash., with supplied for earthquake victims in Turkey.
