PHNOM PENH, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The multi-national military exercise "Angkor Sentinel 2011" came to an end successfully on Friday afternoon after the twelve-day practice at the Training School for Multi-national Peacekeeping Forces in Kampong Speu province, some 50 kilometers west of Phnom Penh, said a press release from the Embassy of the United States to Cambodia.
The closing ceremony was presided over by Gen. Tea Banh, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense and Brig. Gen. Alexander Kozlov, Deputy Commanding General of United States Army Pacific (USARPAC).
“Angkor Sentinel 11” is a bilateral training exercise supporting peace support operations co-sponsored by U.S. Army Pacific and the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces designed to provide an environment for Cambodian Army and United States Army partnership, the statement said.
The exercise also included a Command Post Exercise in which Cambodian and U.S. battalion staffs trained together how to operate in a complex peacekeeping environment, as well as pre-deployment force protection training.
Engineering Civic Action Projects during the exercise included construction of a new three-room school, a well for drinking water, and a health clinic, as well as medical treatment, it added.
The exercise had been participated by 300 Cambodian armed forces, 200 forces of U.S. Army Pacific, and some forces from Mongolia, Indonesia, and Nepal. (Nguon Sovan)
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