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Training Activities

Since its inception, the GPOI Training Activity included the following countries:

Mongolia

  • Hosted Khaan Quest 06 Capstone Exercise and will host Khaan Quest 07 Capstone Exercise. Multi-national Field and Command Post Exercises for GPOI program.
  • Conducted one Staff Officer Course in June 06 and one instructors Course in January 07. Scheduled for a Staff Officers Course in June 07.
  • Deployed personnel trained by GPOI to Sierra Leone, Iraq and the Congo.

Bangladesh
  • Participated in Khaan Quest 06 Field and Command psot Exercises. Sent instructors to support exercise Management from their Peacekeeping Training Center.
  • Scheduled to begin training of Instructors and Staff officers in 2007.
  • Agreed to host Capstone Field and Command Post Exercise in 2008.
  • Deployed to multiple UN Missions.

Thailand
  • Program suspended due to Sanctions.
  • Hosted first GPOI activity at Cobra Gold 2006—trained Thai and US personnel.
  • Conducted Instructors course in January 2006—instructors formed cadre for conduct of Cobra Gold 2006 exercise.
  • Deployed to Congo.

Fiji
  • Program suspended due to Sanctions.
  • Participated in Khaan Quest Command Post and Field Exercise.
  • Deployed to Iraq as the UN protection force.

India
  • Considering wider participation in the program.
  • Self funded to Khaan Quest Field and Command Post Exercise.
  • Deployed on UN Mission.
  • Agreed in principle to host a Senior Mission leader program in cooperation with GPOI and the UN DPKO in 2007—multi-national.
  • Agreed to conduct a Civil Military Cooperation course in 2007—Multi-national and International Inter-agency

Malaysia
  • Participated in Khaan Quest 2006 Command Post Exercise.
  • GPOI program baseline assessment conducted February 2007.
  • Hosting to UN Logistics Courses in May and July 2007. Multi-national course for regional nations. GPOI will fund attendance of some Malaysia will assume all in country costs for participants.
  • Requested pre-deployment training support for 2nd Malaysia rotation into UNIFIL.
  • Coordinating GPOI country action plan with government. Includes conduct of an Instructors and Staff Course in 2007 and hosting Capstone Field and Command Psot Exercise in 2009/2010
  • Keris Strike 2007 Command Post Exercise will be converted to a UN Peacekeeping event.

Indonesia
  • Country Orientation to GPOI completed in January 2007.
  • Garuda Shield Command Post Exercise will be supported by GPOI to introduce UN Peace Operations concepts to the Training audience. Exercise will be conducted in June 2007.
  • Indonesia participated in Khaan Quest 2006 Coomand Post Exercise.

Nepal and Sri Lanka
  • Country briefings to national representatives and the US Country Team scheduled for June 2007.
  • Sri Lanka and Nepal participated in Khaan Quest 2006 Command Post Exercise.

Summary
A unique aspect of the program has been the leveraging of existing training activities have made the content developed to support GPOI available to other nations. An example of this is the Exercise program. These events come with other money that allow a broader range of participants to interact with the GPOI nations. This more closely replicates the operational environment nations will face during deployments. Having nations like India, Australia, the United Kingdom, Korea and many others participate through self-funding or use of exercise funds greatly improves the quality of the exercise. It allows US personnel to participate in these training events also. One comment from a US platoon that participated in Khaan Quest 2006 was that they wished they had training this good prior to serving in Iraq. The full exposure to multi-national and international interagency operations provides a realistic and challenging environment.

The cooperation with the United Nations coordinated through CCMR has lent the program a degree of credibility with nations that would not be possible on a bi-lateral basis. Every time the program talks to a nation about participation in the program, the first two questions they ask are:
  1. Is deploying to Iraq a requirement to participate in the program?
  2. Is the UN involved in the program?
If the answer to the first is yes or the answer to the second is no; then the program will not proceed in that nation. The effort at multi-national and UN cooperation while respecting national decisions on deployment will be key in guaranteeing program success. CCMR has just finished validation of its instructional curriculum with the Integrated Training Service of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations. This allows the distribution of common curriculum to GPOI nations and partners that establish a minimum standard. This enhances program and UN training goals in preparing nations for peace support operations.

GPOI is gaining respect as a program in the Asia Pacific and the international community.