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Senior non-commissioned officers from
all over the Balkans met in Pristina,

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Kosovo for the Regional Senior NCEO Conference.

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This conference is to discuss the development
of the NCO Corps within each country.

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The goals of this conference are to
bring together the senior enlisted of the

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regional partners to discuss the challenges
of developing an all-volunteer

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and professional non-commissioned officers
corps to talk about the NATO NCO strategy

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recommended guidelines and to provide the
KSF, Lieutenant General Kastrati and his

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staff recommendations on how to proceed
in developing an NCO Corps.

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Each country brings something to the table.

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The diverse knowledge of training
and resources helps each country develop

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better, stronger NCO Corps.
Command Sergeant Major David Davenport

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gives an example of different countries
aiding each other with training NCOs.

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One of the best examples I can think of of
working together to develop the NCO Corps

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is right here in Kosovo.

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We've partnered very closely with the
KSF, we've actually set down our Warrior

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Leaders Course from Grafenwoehr to
instruct a mobile training team.

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We've also invited their soldiers up
to Grafenwoehr to attend Warrior Leaders

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Course with the American soldiers.

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The Kosovo Security Force is one of
the benefactors of this conference,

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learning from regional countries to improve
their newly established NCO Corps.

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To work about our relation between regional armies
which means from Slovenian top to Albanian down.

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Also to cooperate with NCO here and also
with NATO which means we are very

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interested in how to build
an NCO career in Kosovo.

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The two-day conference covered a multitude
of subjects and helped the participants

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build relationship and share
resources with each other.

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Reporting for the 121st Public Affairs Detachment
I'm Specialist Alyson Pelletier.