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Article: Fort Sill NCO Academy Supports Uzbek Army. (Letter to the Editor).
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- FA Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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In three international exchange visits in 2001, the Fort Sill NCO Academy, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, supported the Uzbek Army's development of a professional NCO Corps by helping them establish an NCO educational system (NCOES). Personnel from the Fort Sill NCO Academy traveled to Uzbekistan in February and early May with Uzbek Army personnel visiting Fort Sill in late May.
Uzbekistan used to be part of the Soviet Union, called the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, and still has Russian as its national language. The country, just north of Afghanistan, gained its independence in 1991.
The first visit occurred after the Uzbek Army requested US Army assistance ...