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By U.S. Army Maj. Vance Trenkel
3rd Cavalry Regiment PAO
LAGHMAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Maj. Michael Provencher of 3rd Cavalry Regiment traveled with five Afghan National Army leaders to a weeklong training event in mid January 2015. Provencher, along with U.S. Training and Doctrine Command leaders, will show the ANA leaders the Maneuver Center of Excellence located at Fort Benning, Georgia.
The 3rd Cavalry Regiment has been training, advising, and assisting the ANA since July 2014. This trip to the United States will offer the Afghans a better picture of what U.S. training looks like.
The ANA’s 203rd Corps Commander, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, is the highest ranking member of the group. In October 2014 coalition leadership deemed Yaftali’s corps capable enough to operate on their own without daily U.S. and coalition assistance. Currently Yaftali’s corps only receives expeditionary advisory visits a couple times a month in order to discuss progression of his corps.
The tour of Fort Benning will include a visit to basic combat training for new enlistees, combatives training, officer candidate school, basic officer leader’s course, the non-commissioned officer’s academy, and the maneuver captain’s career course.
“This trip will give the Afghans a different perspective on their own soldiers’ training,” said Provencher. “Due to different training environments the ANA training is not an exact mirror of the United States, but there are similarities, just as U.S. leaders go to numerous other countries to participate in developmental schools and training exercises to give a more worldly look to improve our own methods.”
| Date Taken: | 01.14.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 01.15.2015 05:36 |
| Story ID: | 152021 |
| Location: | JALALABAD, AF |
| Hometown: | COLUMBUS, GA, US |
| Hometown: | FORT CAVAZOS, TX, US |
| Hometown: | FORT MOORE, GA, US |
| Hometown: | KILLEEN, TX, US |
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