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Close Window Major Walt Kennedy, Chief of the U.S. Office of Defense Cooperation, symbolically presents the donation to Neil Grayston, UK MoD and Chairman of the PSOTC, and BG Henning Larsen, Danish Army and PSOTC Commandant. (U.S. Embassy photo)
Major Walt Kennedy, Chief of the U.S. Office of Defense Cooperation, symbolically presents the donation to Neil Grayston, UK MoD and Chairman of the PSOTC, and BG Henning Larsen, Danish Army and PSOTC Commandant. (U.S. Embassy photo)
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Major Walt Kennedy, Chief of the U.S. Office of Defense Cooperation, symbolically presents the donation to Neil Grayston, UK MoD and Chairman of the PSOTC, and BG Henning Larsen, Danish Army and PSOTC Commandant. (U.S. Embassy photo)
Major Walt Kennedy, Chief of the U.S. Office of Defense Cooperation, symbolically presents the donation to Neil Grayston, UK MoD and Chairman of the PSOTC, and BG Henning Larsen, Danish Army and PSOTC Commandant. (U.S. Embassy photo)

U.S. Donates Laptops to Peace Support Operations Training Center

January 29, 2007

The US Government, through the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI), last week donated 60 laptop computers to the Peace Support Operations Training Center (PSOTC). The computers are valued at over $200,000 and will be used by students attending the PSOTC.

The PSOTC is a training center established at Camp Butmir in April 2005 through a partnership of 12 nations, including the US. The overarching mission of the PSOTC is to deliver internationally approved education and training to junior officers in the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AFBiH), as well as to invited international students, who, in turn, will lead and train others in multinational peace support and humanitarian operations. The long-term goal is for the PSOTC to develop into a regionally recognized professional military education platform capable of providing indigenous training for the AFBiH and to serve as a regional Balkans Defense and Staff College.

The Global Peace Operations Initiative is a five-year, $660 million Presidential initiative, approved April of 2004, with the goal of increasing global capacity to conduct and support peace operations, particularly peace enforcement, by training and equipping combat support and combat service support units to in coalition operations. BiH received $350k in FY2005 GPOI funding to support the Peace Support Operations Training Center(PSOTC). Currently, BiH has received $1 million of FY2006 GPOI funding which will support PSOTC operations as well as develop capabilities in the new Tactical Support Brigade of the Armed Forces of BiH.