Will the US donated camouflage uniforms be used by Hun Xen's monk-beating cops?
Will the US donated camouflage uniforms be used by Hun Sen's henchmen to repress democracy in Cambodia?U.S. donates military equipment to Cambodian Armed Forces
PHNOM PENH, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- The United States donated military equipment to the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) to help human resources and strengthen Cambodia's capacity, said a press release issued by the U.S. Embassy on Friday.
The U.S. formally transferred nearly twenty forty foot containers of excess military equipment to the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces. The original cost of the material was approximately 6.5 million U.S. dollars and included 16,000 Kevlar helmets, 4,000field packs, 6,000 camouflage uniforms among other items.
The equipment was donated through the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program. Since 2006, Cambodia has received approximately 4.5 million U.S. dollars worth of military equipment and technical assistance through this program.
The FMF program is also funding the grant of excess military transport equipment and technical assistance to the Ministry of National Defense and the High Command, English language training materials and technical assistance to the RCAF English Language Training Program and Maritime Security and Professional Development training to the Royal Cambodian Navy.
The equipment will be issued to priority units with the RCAF, many of whom are currently receiving training and capacity building assistance from the United States, it added.
The handover ceremony was conducted at the National Defense Ministry on Sept. 3 presided over by Brigadier General Skip Vincent and Lieutenant General Chau Phirun, General Director of Materiel and Techniques of the Ministry of National Defense.
The U.S. formally transferred nearly twenty forty foot containers of excess military equipment to the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces. The original cost of the material was approximately 6.5 million U.S. dollars and included 16,000 Kevlar helmets, 4,000field packs, 6,000 camouflage uniforms among other items.
The equipment was donated through the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program. Since 2006, Cambodia has received approximately 4.5 million U.S. dollars worth of military equipment and technical assistance through this program.
The FMF program is also funding the grant of excess military transport equipment and technical assistance to the Ministry of National Defense and the High Command, English language training materials and technical assistance to the RCAF English Language Training Program and Maritime Security and Professional Development training to the Royal Cambodian Navy.
The equipment will be issued to priority units with the RCAF, many of whom are currently receiving training and capacity building assistance from the United States, it added.
The handover ceremony was conducted at the National Defense Ministry on Sept. 3 presided over by Brigadier General Skip Vincent and Lieutenant General Chau Phirun, General Director of Materiel and Techniques of the Ministry of National Defense.
7 comments:
Cambodia needs both China and US help. Great new.
yes, that's right we need all superpowers nations out there. by the way the USA military have been helping siem armed forces for a long time already, now, it's time to help cambodia for a change. who says cambodia can't become one of the USA's allies out there! plus, the world is now changed a lot, so, why not include cambodia in the new era? god bless cambodia.
They're not losing their livelihood, They're losing their corrupt livelihood.
We made $1.00 a day just eat and die. We don't have any tv, karaoke, liquor, computer, internet, toy, bike, car, moto, laptop, running water and etc.
Our toilet would be digging dirt spot by spot for our poop around our shack. We worked sunrise till sunset and 7 a days a week to feed our whole family.
WORK, EAT, SLEEP, AND DIE..........
Work,Eat,Sleep and prosper....
Dear all,
Now, we should wake up and identify who we are and what we do because individual or interested group who created this English website (KI media)in which almost information provided only in favor of opposition party, but it is not so helpful to the public interest in terms of sensibility, creativity, contructivity, productivity, and neatral judgement. If u say that Cambodia is not a demoncratic country, u a 100% wrong.
By the way, if u say that the demoncracy in Cambodia is not fully applied or partially carried out, of course your idea or judgement is sensible and valuable. However, for some extents, the demoncracy in Cambodia is still acceptable because Cambodia case is not as the same as other countries cases, we need sometime to make change.
In this regard, if I were u, anyway, I may be very shame due to the fact that information provided seems to be only one side attack individual person that lead to conflict of interests (your own problem). My suggestion is that u should provide fair and neatral information that would help our country and people. Especially; foreigners shall not be able to look down our nation due to the fact that we a in a unique unity. Why? Because it does not matter even we fight. We attack each other just in the purpose of progress and future develpment of our own nation. If we try to attack individual, we can not make thing change because of conflict of interest between supporters and oppositors. We can achieve a goal and do thing change unless we break the differences and combine those into commond interest, goal and vision.
We should learn from the past experiece, we lost when we broke, we won when we united.
From Thana
I am sorry, I am not intellectual person. My education backgrownd is little and my English is poor too.
Thana,
If you don't like getting your news from KI, then go some place else.
It's simple as that!
I read your post on the other subject too. Stop advocating!
there's more to cambodia than you and i, really!
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