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 Alaska Guard trains with Mongolian armed forces By Pfc. Karina Paraoan, Alaska Army National Guard
 FIVE HILLS TRAINING AREA, Mongolia - Alaska  Army National Guard Soldiers and Mongolian Armed Forces members sharpened their  command and operations skills during a command post exercise at Five Hills  Training Area, Mongolia, this week. The command post exercise (CPX) is part of Khaan Quest  2010, a bilateral peacekeeping operations training exercise held at the Five  Hills Training Area just outside the city of Ulaanbaatar. Khaan Quest is designed to focus on developing  participating military forces' ability to contribute to U.N. peacekeeping  operations, particularly multinational efforts involving peacekeeping  challenges like insurgency, terrorism, crime and ethnic conflict.  The exercise aims to cultivate the readiness,  interoperability and interpersonal relationships that translate into success in  such contexts. Alaska Army National Guard Lt. Col. Simon Brown,  commander of the 761st Military Police Battalion, based in Juneau, Alaska,  served as one of the U.S. battalion commanders during the exercise. Brown explained that while the U.S. participants offered  insight on battalion staff planning and operations, their Mongolian  counterparts shared expertise in peacekeeping operations. "The CPX is a command and control operation that  takes young officers from America and Mongolia and teaches them the finer  points of command, control and planning," Brown said. "This training  is extremely important because the United States is able to offer insight on  battalion staff planning and operations, and the Mongolian counterparts can  share their expertise in peacekeeping operations; by sharing this knowledge,  soldiers from both countries become more well-rounded and are better able to  work together in real-world situations." This is the eighth year for the Alaska National Guard's  involvement in the exercise and is driven by the National Guard Bureau's State  Partnership Program, which pairs the Alaska National Guard with Mongolian  forces. Training in battalion staff level operations during the  command post exercise supports the Mongolian defense reform program's goal to  establish and globally deploy battalion assets in peacekeeping operations in  accordance with NATO standards. As the Mongolian and U.S.
participants work together side-by-side, they develop  cohesive battalion-level mission plans. Capt. Rentsen Enkhbold, brigade operations officer of the  150th Peace Security Battalion, Mongolian Armed Forces, said the training was  beneficial because he learned more about the way the American Soldiers solved problems  and conducted training. "This is my second year in Khaan Quest,"  Enkhbold said. "It is a very good exercise and we hope to collect enough  experience from this to establish one more battalion for a peacekeeping brigade  by 2015." Scenarios were based on U.N. peace support missions such  as convoy operations, cordon and search operations, and establishing  checkpoints and food distribution sites. United States and Mongolian battalion  staff officers and non-commissioned officers would respond to scenarios by  developing and writing mission operations orders. "Each side brings their different experiences to the  table," Brown said.
"The Mongolians' extensive history in peacekeeping  operations and our multiple experiences in combat operations combine to build a  really great training venue."
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