{"id":139436,"date":"2024-03-21T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=139436"},"modified":"2024-03-24T14:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:37:20","slug":"lithuanian-soldiers-train-pennsylvania-guard-on-weapon-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=139436","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Soldiers Train Pennsylvania Guard on Weapon System"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – Soldiers from the Lithuanian Armed Forces recently trained Pennsylvania National Guard Soldiers on the M3 Multi-Role Anti-Armor\/Anti-Personnel Weapon System.<\/p>\n

Lithuanian soldiers from the Griffin Brigade\u2019s Anti-Tank Company conducted MAAWS training with Soldiers from Alpha and Charlie companies, 1-110th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, March 14-17.<\/p>\n

The M3 MAAWS is a man-portable recoilless rifle that allows dismounted soldiers to engage different targets, including vehicles, people and structures.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania National Guard fielded the weapon in 2023. The Lithuanian soldiers came to train the Pennsylvania Guard members because they have a lot of experience with it, said Capt. Daniel Kysela, training officer for the 1-110th Infantry.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince we only recently fielded the MAAWS, the addition of the Griffin Brigade\u2019s soldiers to our training was a huge force multiplier,\u201d Kysela said. \u201cThey\u2019ve been using these for years, and our Soldiers were quickly able to absorb years of TTPs through their interactions this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

The training included classroom instruction, crew drills and a field maintenance class.<\/p>\n

In addition to the MNAAWS training, the Lithuanians\u2019 visit also helped strengthen the partnership Lithuania and the Pennsylvania National Guard have through the National Guard\u2019s State Partnership Program, Kysela said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvents like this show the true strength of the partnership between the Pennsylvania National Guard and Lithuania, as we can help each other by sharing our expertise,\u201d Kysela said. \u201cAs our Soldiers look to begin carrying these weapon systems for our situational training exercises and firing them during our live-fires, they\u2019ll rely on the foundation that our friends in the Anti-Tank Company helped build.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania National Guard and Lithuania have partnered through the State Partnership Program since 1993. They have had over 800 security cooperation engagements, including senior leader engagements, subject matter expert exchanges, familiarization visits and cooperative training and exercises.<\/p>\n

The Department of Defense National Guard Bureau SPP program now includes more than 100 nations.<\/p>\n

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Soldiers from the Lithuanian Armed Forces conduct training with Pennsylvania National Guard Soldiers from the 1-110th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, on the M3 Multi-Role Anti-Armor\/Anti-Personnel Weapon System March 15, 2024, at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. (Pennsylvania National Guard photo by Capt. Daniel Kysela) (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139438,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139439,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139436\/revisions\/139439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}