PHNOM PENH, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- The United States airmen and Cambodian armed forces security personnel, engineers, and medical counterparts have begun a week-long civil-military assistance activities in Koh Kong province, some 277 kilometers Southwest of Cambodia, according to a statement released from the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh on Tuesday.
Some 60 U.S. airmen are teaming up with Cambodian army personnel and local non-governmental organizations to conduct medical outreach to approximately 4,000 people, an engineering civic assistance program to repair medical clinics and schools, and subject matter exchanges on health and airfield humanitarian relief operations, it said.
The exercise, known as Operation Pacific Angel 11-1, is part of a series of joint humanitarian assistance partnerships conducted by Cambodian military units, local non-governmental organizations, and U.S. Pacific Air Force airmen.
“As part of this year’s Operation Pacific Angel, the United States and Cambodia are committed to an exchange of ideas and practices that will better our ability to respond together to humanitarian crises,” said U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Carol A. Rodley in the statement.
“The relationships that we will build and sustain through this exercise will ultimately help us preserve peace and stability in the region,” she added.
Officially in its fourth year, Operation Pacific Angel supports U.S. Pacific Command's capacity-building efforts by partnering with other governments in the Pacific to provide medical, dental, veterinary, and engineering assistance to their citizens.
Since 2007, members of the U.S. military working in partnership with their Cambodian army counterparts have improved the lives of tens of thousands of Cambodian citizens through humanitarian assistance projects, added the statement.
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