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KAMPONG SPEU, Cambodia – Service members from 10 countries stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the parade field at the Training School for Multinational Peacekeeping Forces here Saturday for the start of the field training exercise for Angkor Sentinel 2010.
This year marks the first iteration of Angkor Sentinel, which is a co-sponsored military exercise with the U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. Army Pacific and the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces in support of the U.N. Global Peacekeeping Operation Initiative.
During the ceremony, Deputy Commander U.S. Pacific Command, Maj. Gen. Peter Pawling said, “The Global Peacekeeping Operation Initiative training approach reflects the process as it continues to involve both conceptually and operationally to meet new and ever changing environments.”
Participants in the field training exercise include service members from the United States Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, Philippines, Mongolia, Tonga, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
Col. Ker Savoeun, Chief of Operations for Angkor Sentinel, Royal Cambodian Armed Forces said that the opening ceremony will help bring the Cambodian soldiers together with their leadership and allow them both to see what the Global Peacekeeping Operation Initiative is all about.
The 14-day field training exercise consists of lane training in checkpoint operations, patrolling, securing a distribution site, convoy operations, conducting a cordon and search, and securing a disarmament area.
Angkor Sentinel 2010 is the latest in a continuing series of regional global peacekeeping operation initiative exercises designed to promote peacekeeping capabilities both within Cambodia and regionally.
| Date Taken: | 07.19.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 09.12.2010 20:44 |
| Story ID: | 56154 |
| Location: | KAMPONG SPEU, KH |
| Web Views: | 86 |
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