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• June 23, 2009

  SPP wraps up with focus on Bilateral Affairs Officers

  I can’t tell you how pleased I am with the success of our 2009 State Partnership Program Conference. I heard nothing but great feedback about the conference from General McKinley and the Adjutants General who attended. While we have lots of work to do on the conference deliverables, I tip my hat to everyone who made the conference a success. It truly exceeded expectations.
• June 16, 2009

  State Partnership Program Conference – Forging Ahead

  We got off to a great start at the 2009 EUCOM State Partnership Program Conference. National Guard Bureau Chief, General McKinley, set the stage with his opening remarks about how SPP has matured over the past 15 years, but noted that we need to be "on a vector to make it better." That charge from the Chief opened the floor for some lively, honest and thought-provoking debate about how we at EUCOM, along with our 20 SPP TAGs (Adjutant Generals), and our Component Commands, can communicate and work better to improve the program. A take away for me and my staff is to find ways to bridge the communication gap between our TAGs and our Component Commands -- USAFE (United States Air Forces Europe) and USAREUR (United States Army Europe). The State Partnership Program is a tool of the EUCOM Commander's Theater Security Cooperation plan. It can and should be a multiplier for the component commands as well. We haven't done a great job making that happen. We're going to fix that.
• June 15, 2009

  Illinois TAG (MG William Enyart) - Serving

  Cold, rainy March, near midnight. Hanging out the window of a Warsaw hotel, not many months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, photographing the grim, gray hulk of the Soviet Embassy, thinking "Wow, I can't believe I'm doing this! A few months ago I would have been shot for this."
• June 12, 2009

  EUCOM conference highlights National Guard State Partnership Program

  For our followers who are not familiar with the State Partnership Program, it’s simply about building and nurturing relationships so we can enhance the military, civil authority and security capabilities of our 21 partner countries in Europe and Eurasia. From its groundbreaking start in 1993 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this program has evolved into one of the premier tools of the U.S. government to bridge divides and help our partner countries train and build their military and civil security capabilities. SPP has been the U.S. government’s most economic capability-building tools for our partner countries. Through the powerful relationships between states and partners, everyone works together to develop military and security capabilities that can be fully employed locally, regionally and by NATO. In many cases, these relationships are so strong, the National Guard states and their partner countries form teams and deploy together to support operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
• February 27, 2009

  Chief, Army Reserve visits EUCOM

  EUCOM just completed a successful visit from the Chief Army Reserve CAR LTG Jack Stultz and the CSM Army Reserve CSM Leon Caffie on 12 February 2009.