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Posted on March 9, 2012
BOISE -- A group of the 116th Cavalry Brigade, stationed at Gowen Field, will head overseas Saturday for another mission, but this mission won't be like previous deployments. This mission will focus on training.
About 60 soldiers from the 116th Cavalry Brigade are finishing up packing, preparing to leave Saturday to Cambodia for the next two weeks.
In the Idaho Army National Guard, there are citizen soldiers like Major Paul Boyce.
"My day job, I'm employed with Ada County Highway District as one of their staff attorneys," said Boyce.
But for the next two weeks he is a judge advocate, essentially a military lawyer.
"The judge advocate's job is to make sure that we can conduct our operations in such a way that we can comply with international law and a myriad of other rules and regulations," said Boyce.
He is just one of about 60 soldiers who will fly to Cambodia for an exercise called Anchor Sentinel. They will train in a Cambodian compound, as well as rural areas in the southern part of the country. The goal is to train with the Cambodian Royal Army.
"One of the things we're going to be able to learn from them is their tactics and techniques on how to do that and we'll be able to help them manage more than one company," said Commander Don Blunck.
Specifically, the 116th will learn how the Cambodians run demining operations. There are also 18 soldiers going with a medical background. Those soldiers will be able to see diseases that are not common in the U.S.
"They're going to see things that we just don't see here, and so they're going to get that training and it will be invaluable in their experience as they go forward in their careers," said Blunck.
Each soldier will go into this short mission expecting to learn.
"Every time I've gone some place and worked with a partner country I've learned more than I think I've trained them," said Blunck.
"That region of the world I've never spent time in and so I'm excited to check it out and learn as much as I can," said Boyce.
One other side of this is the families who are staying behind. The soldiers and their families are happy that this deployment will be over quickly, but most importantly it's not in a combat zone.
The Idaho Army National Guard went to Cambodia last year in a state driven medical civil action program. This year's mission is brigade driven, adding the training exercise on top of the medical work. The training goes from March 13th to the 23rd.
BOISE -- A group of the 116th Cavalry Brigade, stationed at Gowen Field, will head overseas Saturday for another mission, but this mission won't be like previous deployments. This mission will focus on training.
About 60 soldiers from the 116th Cavalry Brigade are finishing up packing, preparing to leave Saturday to Cambodia for the next two weeks.
In the Idaho Army National Guard, there are citizen soldiers like Major Paul Boyce.
"My day job, I'm employed with Ada County Highway District as one of their staff attorneys," said Boyce.
But for the next two weeks he is a judge advocate, essentially a military lawyer.
"The judge advocate's job is to make sure that we can conduct our operations in such a way that we can comply with international law and a myriad of other rules and regulations," said Boyce.
He is just one of about 60 soldiers who will fly to Cambodia for an exercise called Anchor Sentinel. They will train in a Cambodian compound, as well as rural areas in the southern part of the country. The goal is to train with the Cambodian Royal Army.
"One of the things we're going to be able to learn from them is their tactics and techniques on how to do that and we'll be able to help them manage more than one company," said Commander Don Blunck.
Specifically, the 116th will learn how the Cambodians run demining operations. There are also 18 soldiers going with a medical background. Those soldiers will be able to see diseases that are not common in the U.S.
"They're going to see things that we just don't see here, and so they're going to get that training and it will be invaluable in their experience as they go forward in their careers," said Blunck.
Each soldier will go into this short mission expecting to learn.
"Every time I've gone some place and worked with a partner country I've learned more than I think I've trained them," said Blunck.
"That region of the world I've never spent time in and so I'm excited to check it out and learn as much as I can," said Boyce.
One other side of this is the families who are staying behind. The soldiers and their families are happy that this deployment will be over quickly, but most importantly it's not in a combat zone.
The Idaho Army National Guard went to Cambodia last year in a state driven medical civil action program. This year's mission is brigade driven, adding the training exercise on top of the medical work. The training goes from March 13th to the 23rd.
2 comments:
Meddle!...US alway meddling all country around the world!
hopefully they will stay away from khmer children. I don't trust the US soldiers.
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