US General Highly Estimates Professionalism of Armenian Signallers

AMERICAN GENERAL HIGHLY ESTIMATES PROFESSIONALISM OF ARMENIAN
SIGNALLERS

YEREVAN, MAY 7, NOYAN TAPAN. Day of Press was organized on May 7
within the framework of Combined Endeavour – 2007 exercises being held
in Yerevan. As Major-General Armen Baburian, Head of
Intercommunication and Automatic Management Systems Department of
General Headquarters of RA Armed Forces, said in his interview to
journalists, new intercommunication equipment was also tested during
the exercises. In particular, devices of video intercommunication,
which are already used in Armenian military units, were tested from
point of view of compatibility with intercommunication means of
various countries during the exercises. As A. Baburian estimated,
Armenian participants of exercises showed high skills and achieved
good results.

Dennis Wai, Commander of Intercommunication Troops of U.S. Land Forces
in Europe, said that he is very impressed by joint work of all
participants of exercises. As regards Armenian signallers, the
latters, in his words, are very professional and are able to quickly
accustom themselves to changes connected with development of
technologies in the sphere of intercommunication.

D. Wai said that the number of participants of Combined Endeavour –
2007 exercises held 13 years running within the framework of
Partnership for Peace NATO program increases year by year:
representatives of 42 countries take part in the exercises. He
attached importance to the circumstance that this time the Armenian
side has expressed willingness to hold in its territory the main part
of exercises.

To recap, the exercises are simultaneously held in the German city of
Baumholder and in Yerevan. 130 signallers from Croatia, France,
Russia, Georgia, U.S. and Armenia take part in Armenian exercises.