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A small group of United States naval personnel is undergoing training with their Nigerian counterparts in the country’s southeast region, the U.S. public affairs department in Nigeria said Sept. 17.
The chief aim of the exchange program, called the "Joint-Combined Exchange Training" (JCET), is to ensure that both nations keep their own military skills up to date and develop intercultural skills, a department statement said.
The exercise, which kicked off Sept. 14, is taking place at the Army’s amphibious training school, near Calabar, capital of Cross River State, it said.
The JCET is an established program and training exercises are conducted around the world, including partnerships with many other African countries. It provides training and cultural immersion for both countries.
Participants will focus on maritime skills, including boat maintenance, riverine navigation and seamanship, according to the text. This exchange training is part of a military-to-military relationship that the United States shares with Nigeria, it added.
This relationship ranges from joint military training to health and humanitarian assistance.
In 2000 and 2001, the United States trained five Nigerian battalions for peacekeeping operations in Sierra Leone under "Operation Focus Relief."
The United States has more recently provided four Coast Guard tender naval vessels, valued at 3.15 million dollars ($2.6 million), to assist the Nigerian Navy in its ability to conduct search and rescue operations, environmental protection of coastal resources, tackle illegal fishing, smuggling and oil bunkering (stealing), and patrol waterways, the text said.
The United States also remains engaged with the Nigerian military on health and humanitarian assistance. The U.S. embassy’s Office of Defense Cooperation has implemented humanitarian assistance programs all over the country, most recently renovating and equipping Misau General Hospital in northern Bauchi State.
In addition, the US Department of Defense has pledged approximately $300,000 to set up a very modern medical research reference laboratory in the Mogadishu barracks in Abuja that will focus on vaccine research for HIV/AIDS, as well as provide a range of care from testing and diagnosis to anti-retroviral therapy and treatment of opportunistic infections. There are about four million HIV-AIDS carriers in Nigeria.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=360025&C=mideast
The chief aim of the exchange program, called the "Joint-Combined Exchange Training" (JCET), is to ensure that both nations keep their own military skills up to date and develop intercultural skills, a department statement said.
The exercise, which kicked off Sept. 14, is taking place at the Army’s amphibious training school, near Calabar, capital of Cross River State, it said.
The JCET is an established program and training exercises are conducted around the world, including partnerships with many other African countries. It provides training and cultural immersion for both countries.
Participants will focus on maritime skills, including boat maintenance, riverine navigation and seamanship, according to the text. This exchange training is part of a military-to-military relationship that the United States shares with Nigeria, it added.
This relationship ranges from joint military training to health and humanitarian assistance.
In 2000 and 2001, the United States trained five Nigerian battalions for peacekeeping operations in Sierra Leone under "Operation Focus Relief."
The United States has more recently provided four Coast Guard tender naval vessels, valued at 3.15 million dollars ($2.6 million), to assist the Nigerian Navy in its ability to conduct search and rescue operations, environmental protection of coastal resources, tackle illegal fishing, smuggling and oil bunkering (stealing), and patrol waterways, the text said.
The United States also remains engaged with the Nigerian military on health and humanitarian assistance. The U.S. embassy’s Office of Defense Cooperation has implemented humanitarian assistance programs all over the country, most recently renovating and equipping Misau General Hospital in northern Bauchi State.
In addition, the US Department of Defense has pledged approximately $300,000 to set up a very modern medical research reference laboratory in the Mogadishu barracks in Abuja that will focus on vaccine research for HIV/AIDS, as well as provide a range of care from testing and diagnosis to anti-retroviral therapy and treatment of opportunistic infections. There are about four million HIV-AIDS carriers in Nigeria.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=360025&C=mideast