ACCESSION NUMBER:00000
FILE ID:95081101.WWE
DATE:08/11/95
TITLE:FOURTEEN CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN COOPERATIVE NUGGET EXERCISES

TEXT:

(The Department of Defense issued the following news release August
9.)

Fort Polk, Louisiana -- Soldiers from two NATO countries and 14
Central and Eastern European nations arrived at Alexandria Industrial
Air Park, La., today to take part in the first Partnership for Peace
Program held on United States soil. More than 4,000 military personnel
will participate in this exercise. This year's exercise, officially
called Cooperative Nugget 95 (CN95) will take at the Joint Readiness
Training Center, Fort Polk, La.

Scheduled by NATO's Allied Command Atlantic and hosted on behalf of
the U.S. by the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command, this is the
sixth military exercise to be conducted as part of NATO's PFP program.
The goal of the PFP program is to encourage participating countries to
model their militaries after NATO in order to become more
defense-oriented elements of their society.

Strongly supported by the U.S., the PFP program is a major initiative
by NATO directed at increasing the confidence and the cooperative
effort of participating forces. Cooperative Nugget 95 demonstrates
U.S. continued support and commitment to NATO, the PFP program and
growth in~ Europe.

The aim of CN 95 is to foster interoperability between the
participating forces. Units will practice tactics and techniques used
in peacekeeping and humanitarian relief missions. The exercise will
provide training challenges for a combined peacekeeping force with a
focus on ~platoon-sized and company-sized elements. Cooperative Nugget
95 continues through~ August 26.

NATO participating nations include: Canada, th~e United Kin~gdom and
the~ United States. PIP nations include: Albania, Bulgaria, The Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,
Romania, The Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
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