TBILISI. Jan 8 (Interfax-AVN) - U.S. instructors will begin training another Georgian unit on January 18.
"The training in the armor group organic to the Georgian Armed Forces' 11th Motorized Rifle Brigade within the Pentagon's Train and Equip program will begin in 10 days - on January 18," Brigadier General Dmitry Lezhava, chief of the Personnel Directorate of the Georgian Defense Ministry, told Interfax- Military News Agency Thursday.
According to Lezhava, "the training will involve a joint mechanized company including an armor platoon."
Lezhava said that the training in this company will differ from the methods used in the previous stages of the Train and Equip program in Georgia.
"The Pentagon has sent armor training specialists and instructors. They have already arrived in Georgia," he said.
The Train and Equip program has already covered the 111th Telavi Light Infantry Battalion, the Commando SOp battalion, the 16th Sakhcheri Mountain Rifle Battalion, and the 113th Light Infantry Battalion.
The program worth USD64m was launched in 2002 and will end in spring 2004. All units covered by it will then form a single brigade.