U.S. Army Civil Affairs personnel recently completed a 4-day seminar with the Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) element of the Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) at the SAF Air Forces Command Building. This team’s work with the SAF helped support their Partnership for Peace goals and will prove useful in SAF’s upcoming rotation as part of the European …
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The Department of Defense’s State Partnership Program asks that each state and its partner nation have the ability to conduct a variety of joint exercises and training events to enhance interoperability and cooperation between partner and allied nations while building relationships. The Ohio National Guard and Serbian Armed Forces have shown commitment and dedication to …
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It was an experience of a lifetime for the Rev. James Sizemore, an Ohio Army National Guard chaplain and lieutenant colonel, to participate in a Serbian Orthodox Divine Liturgy June 17 at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Vranje. Sizemore led a portion of the sermon, translated by the Rev. Goran Sandic, the church deacon and the …
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Nearly 45 members of the Ohio National Guard’s 838th Military Police Company arrived in the Republic of Serbia June 10 to participate in exercise Platinum Wolf. The two-week, multinational peacekeeping exercise will bring 10 nations together to enhance military cooperation and interoperability at Serbia’s South Base and Borovac Training Area, June 11 – 22. The …
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During phase two, military medical personnel from Angola, Serbia and Ohio will operate a field hospital Dec. 11-15 in the Bengo Province of Angola. They will focus on areas such as preventative medicine, pediatrics, family practice, dermatology, optometry, dentistry, and obstetrics and gynecology. This engagement is the first-of-its-kind to happen in the Republic of Angola …
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About 30 members of the Ohio National Guard are participating alongside the Angolan and Serbian Armed Forces in the first combined medical engagement between the three militaries, Dec. 4-15 in the Republic of Angola. The two-week trilateral engagement, called PAMBALA 2017, consists of two phases. Phase one, which kicked off Dec. 4 in Luanda, is …
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Civil servants from the Office of the National Security Council and Classified Information Protection of the government of Serbia were trained to deal with information systems security (INFOSEC) in real life situations. The training took place in Belgrade and Tallinn from 30 October until 10 November 2017 as part of NATO’s Science for Peace and …
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U.S. ARMY Paratrooper Spc. Uros Dzelebdzic, a medic with Charlie Company, 173rd Brigade Support Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, was born in Belgrade, Serbia and is acting as translator during the exercise. Exercise Double Eagle is a multi-national company-level airborne insertion exercise designed to enhance the relationship between the U.S. and Serbia and strengthen regional security.
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The United States Air Forces in Europe Band ensemble Wings of Dixie recently toured Serbia to celebrate the American Culture Days hosted by the U.S. Embassy Belgrade, reflecting the strong partnership between our two countries. To start and promote the tour they performed live on Serbia’s largest national TV station RTS. Next stop was the cultural …
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Adjutant General – Army, Ohio National Guard, Major General John Harris, visited the members of the Serbian Armed Forces and KFOR engaged in the simultaneous patrol in the Kosovo-Serbia Ground Safety. According to General Harris, the joint patrols emphasize the importance of building trust, and it is well known that Ohio and Serbia have had …
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At Borovac training ground and Vrtogos shooting range a part of the members of the 310th Engineer Battalion of the 3rd Army Brigade and the 15th Engineer Battalion of the US Armed Forces European Command have demonstrated the knowledge acquired during the joint training conducted from 7th – 28th April around the South Base. During …
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Director of the European Partnership Task Force of U.S. European Command, Brigadier General William Hall, participated at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of a daycare center for persons with mental and physical disabilities in Pirot. The construction of the daycare center, worth $415,000, was funded by the U.S. Armed Forces European Command, coordinated through …
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On Tuesday, April 4th, the U.S. Embassy and municipality of Pirot will conduct a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open a daycare center for persons with mental and physical disabilities. The construction of the daycare center, worth USD 415,000, was funded by the European Command of the U.S. Armed Forces, coordinated through the U.S. Embassy’s Office of …
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The Commanding General of United States Army in Europe, Lieutenant General Frederick Hodges, met with the Serbian Minister of Defence, Zoran Đorđević, during his visit of Serbia. Lieutenant General Hodges expressed positive impressions about the cooperation between USAREUR and the Serbian Armed Forces and highlighted extraordinary professionalism and level of training of the members of the …
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The Minister of Defense, Mr. Zoran Đorđević and the Ambassador of the United States of America, Mr. Kyle Scott, talked about the continuation of the established and the development of the future cooperation between the two countries in the field of defense. The interlocutors stated that the bilateral military cooperation was one of the most …
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On the occasion of World AIDS Day, the ambassador Kyle Scott visited the Military Medical Academy and announced the donation of the equipment for the HIV/AIDS prevention worth $80,000 under the U.S. Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program (DHAPP)- a global initiative whereby the U.S. Government works with armed forces worldwide in order to raise …
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Serbian Armed Forces and the Ohio National Guard organized free medical examinations for the residents of eight villages remote from health care facilities in the towns of Presevo and Bujanovac during the month of September. Joint medical teams carried out 3,364 examinations on 1,900 patients on six locations in the Pcinj Administrative District. In Reljan, …
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