United States Army Europe Information Sharing Seminar

19 August 2009

United States Army Europe personnel conducted a unit level information sharing seminar with members from the 21st Podhale Rifleman Regiment, Poland Land Forces 19 August 2009 vicinity Nowy Deba Training Area Poland.  Members of the Joint Multinational Simulation Center, Grafenwoehr, Germany conducted familiarization scenarios involving improvised explosive devices to over 100 soldiers from the Polish Land Forces.  This is the first event of its kind to be conducted with specific focus on improvised explosive devices that Polish soldiers may face during deployments across the world.  The United States European Command Mil-to-Mil (M2M) program funded this event to assist Polish Armed Forces professional development and NATO interoperability initiatives. 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.