United States Army Major General Warren Edwards, Deputy Commanding General, Third United States Army, Fort McPherson, Georgia, talks with the Minister of Defense for Kazakhstan Lieutenant General Sat Tokpakbaev as they watch the opening ceramonies of Central Asian Peacekeeping Battalion (CENTRASBAT) 2000, Almayt, Kazakhstan, Wednesday 13 September 2000. CENTRASBAT 2000 is a multi-national peacekeeping and humanitarian relief exercise sponsored by United States Central Command (US CENTCOM) and hosted by the former Soviet Republic Kazakhstan in Central Asia, 11-20 September 2000. Exercise participants include approximately 300 US troops including personnel from US CENTCOM, the US Army's ...
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[Complete] Scene Caption: United States Army Major General Warren Edwards, Deputy Commanding General, Third United States Army, Fort McPherson, Georgia, talks with the Minister of Defense for Kazakhstan Lieutenant General Sat Tokpakbaev as they watch the opening ceramonies of Central Asian Peacekeeping Battalion (CENTRASBAT) 2000, Almayt, Kazakhstan, Wednesday 13 September 2000. CENTRASBAT 2000 is a multi-national peacekeeping and humanitarian relief exercise sponsored by United States Central Command (US CENTCOM) and hosted by the former Soviet Republic Kazakhstan in Central Asia, 11-20 September 2000. Exercise participants include approximately 300 US troops including personnel from US CENTCOM, the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.orth Carolina, and 5th Special Forces Group, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and 300 Kazakhstan soldiers. Other participating nations include: Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, The United Kingdom, Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Mongolia. CENTRASBAT originated in 1996, and was established to form a joint battalion of soldiers from the former Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan and Uzbekistan to serve as a key component in developing a regional security and cooperation structure. CENTRASBAT 2000 will test US and Central Asian unit's combat readiness and ability to conduct peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, as well as develop and build cooperative relationships between the respective states and assist in laying the foundation for future peacekeeping and humanitarian operations.
Subject Operation/Series: CENTRASBAT 2000
Base: Almaty
Country: Kazakhstan (KAZ)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jeremy T. Lock
Release Status: Released to Public
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