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The "partners" of the partnerships are the Guard units of various states and foreign nations that have requested and been granted partnerships. The program links National Guard units of U.S. States with partner countries around the world for the purpose of supporting the security cooperation objectives of the geographic Combatant Commands ...
The New Jersey–Cyprus National Guard Partnership is one of 25 European partnerships that make-up the U.S. European Command State Partnership Program and one of 88 worldwide partnerships that make-up the National Guard State Partnership Program [5] The New Jersey National Guard has been selected as the new state partner for the Republic of ...
A subsequent National Guard Bureau proposal paired U.S. states with three nations emerging from the former Soviet Bloc (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia) and the SPP was born, becoming a key U.S. security cooperation tool, facilitating cooperation across all aspects of international civil-military affairs and encouraging people-to-people ties at ...
The SPP deploys California National Guard teams to Ukraine and brings Ukrainians to the United States for information sharing to assist Armed Forces of Ukraine in re-structuring, modernizing its forces, and strengthening principles of democracy and free market economies. Exchanges include information about the processes underpinning US military ...
The program began to develop through the use of traveling contact team (in country events), familiarizations (out of country events), orientations and exercises and the partnership with the Alabama National Guard met its primary end state when Romania became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 2004.
The National Guard Bureau provides guidance to the states participating in the program, but the program is primarily managed by a State Partnership Program and a bilateral affairs officer, normally a full-time national guardsman or other military officer assigned to the geographic combatant command and under the direction of the U.S. embassy in ...
"The State Partnership Program is a longstanding and important program, which will benefit both our Iowa National Guard and the Kosovo Security Force." [4] Iowa has a special relationship with Kosovo as more than 700 Iowa National Guardsmen and women have been stationed there as part of peacekeeping missions since 2003.
The State Partnership relationship with Nebraska and Texas was established the following year. The Czech Republic joined NATO on 12 March 1999, and the European Union on 1 May 2004. Czech forces contributed to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014, and the Resolute Support Mission (RSM) since 2015.