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 Minnesota, Ohio Guard prepare to deploy with partners By Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone Walker
                JMRC Public Affairs
 HOHENFELS, Germany - In preparation for an  upcoming deployment to Afghanistan with Hungarian Soldiers, Staff Sgt. Timothy  Harmon has given himself a crash course in the language. Harmon and fellow Guard members recently completed  Operational Mentor and Liaison Team training with their NATO counterparts at  the Joint Multinational Readiness Center. The Minnesota National Guard also  completed OMLT training with troops from Croatia, which is the country they are  paired with in the National Guard State Partnership Program. Harmon, a member of the Ohio National Guard, calculates  that he knows more than 50 Hungarian words and has reached the point where he  can engage in short, polite conversations in the language with the Hungarian  soldiers that he will serve with in Afghanistan. "I just want to be able to be more effective  communicating with those guys," Harmon said. In all, 13 countries from around the world participated  in OMLT training at JMRC. The training exercise included military personnel  from the United Kingdom, Poland, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Romania, France,  Hungary, Norway, Croatia, Slovakia, Afghanistan and the United States. The training exercise gave NATO countries' troops a  chance to experience mentoring, coaching and teaching actual Afghan National  Army soldiers. At the same time, 65 ANA soldiers here got a chance to work with  troops from other countries who will be part of counter insurgency operations  in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, the OMLTs will coach, teach and mentor  Afghan soldiers to take a leading role in defending their nation. The upcoming deployment will be Harmon's first to  Afghanistan, although he has served a tour of duty in Iraq. It also will be the  first time he will train, work and live with troops from another country in a  combat zone. The two weeks Harmon spent with Hungarians at JMRC along  with the four months with them in Hungary has allowed him, not only to learn a  new language, but it also has allowed him time to get to know his Hungarian  comrades. During the OMLT training, Harmon was astonished by the  Hungarian soldiers' work ethic and eagerness to learn. At the end of most days, the National Guardsmen knew  where to find the Hungarian soldiers -- outside the barracks in the grass  continuing weapons training or practicing casualty care. "They are adamant about learning about the different  techniques and methods we use in the U.S. military," Harmon said. "It  makes our jobs a lot easier and instills confidence in us." 1st Lt. Josef Tulipan of Hungarian Defense Forces said  working with the U.S. troops at JMRC was a mutually beneficial learning  experience. Most importantly, it gave Hungarian soldiers insight into how  American's react in particular combat situations, he said. "We learned how the U.S. Soldiers think,"  Tulipan said. Lt. Phillip Patti of the Ohio National Guard said  training with the Hungarians here at JMRC gave troops from both countries a  chance to complete critical hands-on training using equipment, aids and other  assets that weren't available elsewhere. "It was a good time to get [the Hungarians] in the  driver's seat of a Humvee and behind a turret," Patti said. Like their Ohio counterparts, Minnesota National  Guardsmen also completed combined OMLT training with Croatian troops at JMRC.  Throughout their training, they also had the opportunity to train with the ANA  troops. Maj. Baer David of the Minnesota National Guard said the  upcoming mission in Afghanistan will require his Soldiers and the Croatian  troops to work together. Both vehicle and squad crews will be a mix of Croatian  and American Soldiers. Training time together at JMRC was critical in ironing  out any problems that could hamper the troops from acting as a unified team. "It's one team one fight," Baer said. "We  have to act as one unit."
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