ACCESSION NUMBER:00000
FILE ID:95092205.WWE
DATE:09/22/95
TITLE:22-09-95  USA HOSTS PFP EXERCISE, COOPERATIVE SUPPORT 95
(Text: NATO announcement) (330)

TEXT:

Washington -- The second Partnership for Peace exercise to be held in
the United States will be begin September 25 at U.S. Navy's Fleet
Combat Training Center (Atlantic), Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Following is the text of a September 6 press release received from
Allied Command, Atlantic (ACLANT), North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Public Information Office in Norfolk, Virginia:

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NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic (SACLANT) announced today
that the NATO/Partnership for Peace (PFP) exercise Cooperative Support
95 (COSUP 95) will be conducted from 25-29 September 1995 at the U.S.
Navy's Fleet Combat Training Center (Atlantic), Dam Neck, Virginia
Beach, Virginia.
COSUP 95 is a logistics exercise involving 36 senior officers from 14
PFP nations -- Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Hungary,
Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia,
Ukraine -- and 21 senior officers from 10 NATO nations -- Belgium,
Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, the United
Kingdom, and the United States. France, although not part of NATO
military structure, will join in the exercise, as part of the normal
training relations which it has established with its allies. The aim
of the exercise is to introduce PFP nations to NATO multinational,
shore-based and afloat logistics operations.
COSUP 95 will promote closer military cooperation and interoperability
between NATO and PFP nations and focuses on logistical aspects of
peacekeeping, search and rescue, and humanitarian operations.
Planning and execution of COSUP 95 is overseen by General John J.
Sheehan, U.S. Marine Corps, SACLANT. The exercise will be conducted by
ACLANT Assistant Chief of Staff, Resources, Rear Admiral Einar Inge
Skorgen, Norwegian Navy. Director of the exercise is ACLANT Branch
Head, Logistics Plans and Readiness, Captain William H. Burdon, U.S.
Navy.
Queries and requests for information should be made to ACLANT Public
Information Office, German Navy Commander Wolfgang Schaefer: (+1)
804-445-3684, FAX (+1) 804-445-3234.

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