recent odc activities 2008
Trilateral Exercise With Illinois National Guardsmen
11 June 2008
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| Soldiers from the Epidemiological Reaction Center of the Polish Armed Forces, Illinois Army National Guard and Slovakian Armed Forces |
Members of the Illinois Army National Guard’s 444th Chemical Company, Galesburg, Illinois and 445th Chemical Company, East Saint Louis, Illinois are conducting trilateral Chemical, Biological Radiological/Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) team familiarization scenarios with Slovakian Armed Forces and Polish Armed Forces personnel near WesoĊa, Poland from June 8-14. This is the first trilateral small unit information sharing exercise involving CBRNE specialists from the Illinois National Guard and the Armed Forces of the two countries. Core objectives of the event promote information sharing regarding the proper processes and procedures involved to successfully conduct CBRNE decontamination events. Since 1993, the Illinois National Guard and Polish Armed Forces have participated in a partnership program that provides for the sharing of ideas between two nations. Regionally, Poland receives the most U.S. Foreign Military Financing (FMF) assistance funding and is also the sixth largest FMF recipient in the world. To date this includes over $285 million in direct FMF grants and more than $3.9 billion in FMF loans. Additionally, Poland has received more than $31 million dollars under the Combined Education Training Program (CETP) which includes: the International Military Education Training (IMET) Program; Military to Military (M2M) Program; State Partnership Program (SPP) and Combating Terrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP). Poland utilizes U.S. support to help transform and modernize the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland.
