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U.S. European Command Begins Crisis Response Training in Senegal

Eight-week training began September 11
The United States European Command (EUCOM) launched the first-ever
brigade training under the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI)
program on September 11 in Senegal, according to a September 13 EUCOM
press release.
A U.S. joint mobile training team of approximately 35 soldiers,
sailors, airmen, and Marines dispatched from Europe, and assisted by
approximately 40 contract instructors and support personnel, is
overseeing the brigade-level instruction for about 400 Senegalese
soldiers, non-commissioned officers, and officers, EUCOM said.
Training, EUCOM said, includes instruction in peacekeeping and
humanitarian assistance doctrine, individual soldier skills, training
in combat support and combat service support functions, staff officer
skills, and in military decision making.
Scheduled for eight weeks, the training will culminate in a brigade
situational training exercise in early November.
ACRI is a U.S. presidential initiative under State Department
sponsorship that works with selected African nations to create an
effective, rapidly deployable, and interoperable peacekeeping and
humanitarian assistance capability on the continent.
To date, EUCOM has provided training to approximately 800 soldiers in
each of the following countries: Senegal, Uganda, Mali, Malawi, Ghana,
Cote d'Ivoire, and Benin. The U.S. goal is to train about 12,000
peacekeepers to form 10 to 12 battalion-sized units, and two to three
brigade-level headquarters units.
(Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S.
Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)