Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 04.06.2018
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (April 3, 2018) – Fifteen participants from 10 countries have now entered a network of more than 12,500 security professionals from 153 nations after graduating from the English Language Enhancement Course (ELEC) at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies April 3....
Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 06.27.2017
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – Almost two dozen Central Asian government officials shared strategies to fight global organized crime in their region at a four-day workshop at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, June 19 to 22....
Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 05.10.2017
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (May 9, 2017) – Dr. Ion Nastas, who is tasked with preventing and combating corruption in his country, has an answer for those who ask him why he needs to speak English since he works in the Republic of Moldova and speaks Romanian. “In today’s world, day after day, I have more cases where I need to speak English because I often have to call my......
Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 03.06.2017
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (March 6, 2017) – More than a half-a-million dollars were seized and several criminals arrested in the first and second stand-alone money-laundering busts in Trinidad and Tobago in November 2016....
Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 12.15.2016
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Dec. 15, 2016) – Packing tools to bring strategies to life, 90 practitioners are heading home to 52 countries after graduating from the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies’ Program on Countering Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC) Dec. 15....
Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 08.12.2016
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Aug. 11, 2016) – Beninese Armed Forces Lt. Mathieu Zanmassou freely admitted that he had no idea what countering transnational organized crime meant in English....
Story by Staff Sgt. Siuta Ika | Joint Task Force Bravo | 08.04.2016
Joint Task Force-Bravo’s 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment deployed UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-47 Chinook helicopters to conduct a variety of training scenarios throughout the Belize District with members of the Belize Special Assignment Group and Belize Coast Guard -- who were supported by members of Special Operations Command South -- July 18 through 21....
Story by Staff Sgt. Carmen Fleischmann | Florida National Guard Public Affairs Office | 07.15.2016
Starke, FL (July 14, 2016) – Central American partner nations visited Camp Blanding Joint Training Center (CBJTC), and other Florida National Guard (FLNG) facilities, in hopes of strengthening their relationship and viewing first-hand the capabilities for training their forces to combat transnational organized crime (CTOC)....