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Illinois National Guard Unit Trains With Polish Soldiers for Iraq Duty

24 May 2005
Polish National Guard soldiers storm a building from which a sniper fires during a training scenario (U.S. Army photo by SGT Megan Hunter)
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Twenty-nine members of the 333rd Military Police (MP) Company from the Illinois Army National Guard recently spent two weeks in Poland exchanging information with Polish soldiers from both the 1st Mechanized Division and the 12th Mechanized Division who are deploying to Iraq in 2005 and 2006.

The U.S. Army unit recently returned from a 15-month tour of duty in Iraq. This information exchange was conducted at a Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) site in the Wędrzyn Training Area in northwest Poland.

The information exchange concentrated on four Military Police skills: cordon & search, convoy security, crowd & riot control, and how to operate a static and hasty checkpoint.

The Illinois Army National Guard has a State Partnership Program with Poland. This is the fourth peacekeeping operation to take place between the Illinois troops and more than 1000 Polish soldiers deploying for service in Iraq.

 


Polish National Guard soldiers storm a building from which a sniper fires during a training scenario (U.S. Army photo by SGT Megan Hunter)
Polish National Guard soldiers storm a building from which a sniper fires during a training scenario (U.S. Army photo by SGT Megan Hunter)		SPC Matt Baxter of the 333rd Military Police (MP) Company Illinois Army National Guard, throws a white smoke canister provided by the Polish Army. (U.S. Army photo by SGT Megan Hunter)
SPC Matt Baxter of the 333rd Military Police (MP) Company Illinois Army National Guard, throws a white smoke canister provided by the Polish Army. (U.S. Army photo by SGT Megan Hunter)		Sgt. Kyle Denault of the 33rd MP Company speaking with two Polish soldiers prior to the Cordon and Search part of the exercise (US Army photo by SGT Megan Hunter)
Sgt. Kyle Denault of the 33rd MP Company speaking with two Polish soldiers prior to the Cordon and Search part of the exercise (US Army photo by SGT Megan Hunter)		Polish soldiers participating in the checkpoint part of the exercise (US Army photo by SGT Megan Hunter)
Polish soldiers participating in the checkpoint part of the exercise (US Army photo by SGT Megan Hunter)
    

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