III Marine Expeditionary Force / Marine Corps Installations Pacific
U.S. Marine Sgt. Anthony J. Clement, left, discusses upcoming training with Royal Cambodian Gendarmerie Col. Lun Scumnang, center, and Lt. Col. Sam Sovathana prior to the start of Royal Preah Khan Jan. 12. Royal Preah Khan is a simulated humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise focused on enhancing response capabilities through staff training, crisis action planning, a command post exercise and enhancing Royal Cambodian Armed Forces and Marine cooperation. Clement, from San Diego, California, is the operations non-commissioned officer during Royal Preah Khan. Scumnang, from Pursat Province, Cambodia, is the Chief Secretariat of the Royal Cambodian Gendarmerie. Sovathana, from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is the Deputy Chief of Geography and Democracy. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Thor J. Larson/Released)
PHNOM PHEN, Cambodia – U.S. Marines and the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces begin Royal Preah Khan Jan. 12 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Royal Preah Khan is a simulated humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise focused on enhancing response capabilities through staff training, crisis action planning, a command post exercise and enhancing RCAF and Marine cooperation.
U.S. Marines participating in Royal Preah Khan are with Headquarters Regiment, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force. The RCAF service members are from multiple units, including the Royal Gendarmerie.
“In this scenario, we are exercising the capabilities of the Gendarmerie and ourselves to support a disaster in this region,” said U.S. Marine Col. Edmund J. Bowen, the Deputy Commander of the Combined Task Force – Cambodia for the exercise. “During any type of humanitarian assistance or disaster response, it’s important that we understand our capabilities.”
Because III MEF Marines are among the first responders to crises in the Pacific, building a strong relationship with the RCAF could save additional lives in the future, according to U.S. Marine Cpl. Jonathan Cabrera, the command and control of personal computers during the exercise.
“Royal Preah Khan is important because [it allows us to] expand our relationship with the Royal Cambodian Gendarmerie,” said Cabrera, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “This will help us, and them, be prepared for a humanitarian aid and direct support mission that could happen.”
The exercise provides a great experience and helps the Royal Cambodian Gendarmerie and U.S. Marines learn about how each other work, according to Royal Cambodian Gendarmerie Pvt. Na Nie, an infantryman with the Gendarmerie.
“Every time the Marines have come, I have put my name on the list to work with them,” said Nie, from Battdombong Province, Cambodia. “I like working with and experiencing how the Marines operate.”
Royal Preah Khan is an expanding exercise, according to Bowen, from Staten Island, New York. Last year a Lt. Col. was the officer in charge for the Gendarmerie, but this year a Brig. Gen. is participating and will provide even more knowledge and experience that could help expand it in future iterations.
“This exercise is growing and I would like to see a practical application in the field sometime in the future,” said Bowen.
2 comments:
Those two gentlemen in Khmer military uniforms do not sound like Khmer/Cambodian at all, are these guys Yuon/Vietnamese sons of illegal Yuon immigrant parents. The U.S. Military Officials and Marines should not trust those CPP/Yuon military led by Vietnamese/Yuon puppet Hun Sen. Please be careful with CPP Military commanders who are lazy, who never finished training or went to the battle fields, who have fake 4 or 5 stars to be military generals, etc. because they were created and set up bye communist Yuon/Vietnamese masters in Hanoi. That is why they are Yuon/Viet CPP military abusers under a Yuon/Vietnamese puppet Hun Sen and his evil Vietnamese/Yuon masters in Hanoi. They tried to steal Khmer/Cambodian natural resources, lands and property to enrich themselves. They are very dirty, disgusted, and criminal on the planet.
Did the government of The United state of America care about atrocity of this Cambodian gendarmes to Khmer innocent ? It is a shameful fact of one democratic leader of the world , Who ignore the serious crime of Hun Sen strongman sub group who commit unbelievable and unjustifiable atrocity to Khmer country citizen . I ask the United State congress man please review carefully this kind of mission or to stop this co operation with this killer regime government .
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