US Paratroops Convoy to Western Ukraine for Training Mission!

• US paratroops convoy to western Ukraine for training mission!
  by http://www.stripes.com/ , 13 April 2015  
  U.S. paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine for Operation Fearless Guardian, a six-month effort to train Ukraine’s newly established national guard force.
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  The first troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade arrived Friday in western Ukraine, delivering military cargo after completing a 1,100-mile convoy from their home station in Vicenza, Italy, the Army said.
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  “The equipment on the convoy consists primarily of logistics vehicles to support and enable the training effort in Ukraine,” said Capt. P.J. Hartman, a battalion transportation planner with the 173rd, in an Army news release. “This equipment will provide maintenance support as well as troop and general cargo transport to and from training areas.”
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  The convoy of 50 paratroops and 25 vehicles traveled through Austria, Germany and Poland before arriving in Yavoriv, Ukraine. Formal training with Ukraine’s national guard will begin later this month. About 300 U.S. soldiers will deploy for the effort, which centers on training three battalions of Ukrainian troops in a range of infantry tactics.
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  The initiative isn’t the first time U.S. troops have worked in Ukraine. Since Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula last year and ongoing hostilities with Russian-backed separatists in the country’s east, U.S. soldiers — under the Operation Atlantic Resolve mission —have deployed several times to training grounds in western Ukraine.
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