ACCESSION NUMBER:00000
FILE ID:95082403.WWE
DATE:08/24/95
TITLE:24-08-95 U.S. SARGENT RACHEL KAVARSKY GOES FROM INTERROGATOR TO INTERPRETER
TEXT:
(Text: Press release 8/23) (420)
(The following press release was issued by the Press Information
Center of the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana,
August 23.
Fort Polk, Louisiana -- Sgt. Rachel Kavarsky, 338th Military
Intelligence Company, Waterbury, Connecticut, trained to interrogate
soldiers from the Soviet Union. So, it may be a little ironic that she
was helping to teach military tactics to soldiers from a former Soviet
state now, the independent country of Kyrgyzstan.
Kavarsky was sent here to serve as an interpreter during the
NATO/Partnership for Peace exercise Cooperative Nugget 95, which
involves 17 countries, including several former Soviet bloc nations,
in joint peacekeeping and humanitarian aid exercises. Scheduled by
NATO's Allied Command Atlantic and hosted on behalf of the United
States by the commander-in-chief, U.S. Atlantic Command, it is the
sixth exercise of the Partnership for Peace and the first held in this
country.
In the exercise, Kavarsky worked with American Special Forces troops,
translating training lessons for a 38 member platoon of Russian
speaking Kyrgyzstani soldiers. A Russian and Eastern European Studies
graduate student at Yale University, Kavarsky said the training has
been beneficial both for her and for the foreign troops.
"It's been great. They are very eager to learn from us and constantly
ask questions. She said during a break in training centered around how
to deal with the press in the field. "My Russian has been improving a
lot because of this training."
Kavarsky said that the members of her unit, a part of the 94th Army
Reserve Support Command at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, were assigned
to CN95 because of the need for interpreters.
"This is excellent training because I'm getting real, practical
experience." she said.
The aim of CN95 is to foster the ability of participating nations'
militaries to work together in combined peacekeeping and humanitarian
relief operations. The soldiers practice tactics, techniques and
communications procedures at the platoon and company level. NATO's PFP
program assists the military forces of partner nations to emerge from
the Cold War as positive non-political, defense-oriented elements of
their societies.
Along with Kyrgyzstan, PFP nations participating include: Albania,
Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lativia, Lithuania,
Poland, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
Participating NATO countries are Canada, the United Kingdom, and the
United States.
Cooperative Nugget 93 continues through August 26, 1995.
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