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The NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan NTM-A is a multinational military organisation, activated in November 2009, tasked with providing a higher-level training for the Afghan National Army ANA and Afghan Air Force AAF, including defense colleges and academies, as well as being responsible for doctrine development, and training and advising Afghan National Police ANP. The commanding officers, is dual-hatted and commands both NTM-A and Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan CSTC-A and reports to Commander ISAF. 1
Its mission is: NTM-A/CSTC-A, in coordination with NATO Nations and Partners, International Organizations, Donors and NGO s Non-Government Organizations ; supports GIRoA Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan as it generates and sustains the Afghan National Security Forces ANSF, develops leaders, and establishes enduring institutional capacity in order to enable accountable Afghan-led security. 2
This will reflect the Afghan government s policing priorities and will complement existing training and capacity development programs, including the European Union Police Mission and the work of the International Police Coordination Board.
During the 1960s to the early 1990s, the Afghan army was trained and equipped by the Soviet Union. By 1992 it fragmented into regional militias under local warlords. This was followed by the Taliban rule in 1996. After the removal of the Taliban in late 2001, the new Afghan armed forces were formed with the support of US and other NATO countries. As of 2009, all training for the Afghan security forces have been conducted by a single Command.
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Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak signing a NATO treaty in 2009.
Between 2002 and 2009, the Afghan National Police ANP received training under the Afghanistan Police Program. At a 2009 NATO Summit in Strasbourg-Kehl, while celebrating sixty years of peace and security within the alliance, NATO allies and partners, announced that they would establish a NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan, drawing on NATO s successful experience training in Iraq, to oversee higher level training for the Afghan National Security Forces ANSF.
NTM-A, joined with CSTC-A on 21 November 2009 to create a comprehensive training program for Afghanistan, 1 and a few days later NATO obtained commitments from allies for personnel and resources to train, mentor and equip the ANSF.
The current mission of NTM-A is to oversee higher level training for the Afghan National Army ANA and training and mentoring for the ANP, and in coordination with CSTC-A, to plan and implement authorized and resourced operational capacity building for ANSF, in order to enhance the government of the Islamic republic s ability to achieve security and stability in Afghanistan.
As of December 2011 update, total manpower of the ANSF is over 290,000 and is expected to reach 400,000 by the end of 2014. 3 4 5 Facilities and capacity planning efforts are rapidly adjusting to the significant increases in national recruiting efforts to meet manpower needs.
Ce182T trainers at Shindand Air Base, which serves as the main training center for the Afghan Air Force.
The Regional Military Training Center South West in Helmand Province, is being transitioned from coalition oversight to ANA. Prior to this, construction, maintenance and mentoring has been done by US, British and Danish forces.
Further information: Afghan Armed Forces
Members of the coalition forces in Afghanistan have undertaken different responsibilities in the creation of the ANA and the Afghan Air Force AAF. All these various efforts are managed on the Coalition side by NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan NTM-A, a three-star level multi-national command headquartered in downtown Kabul.
Since 2006 all training and education done by the ANA, is managed and implemented by the Afghan National Army Training Command ANATC formed in 2005, a two-star command which reports directly to the Chief of the General Staff. The Kabul Military Training Center KMTC 6 and six regional military training centres RMTCs as well as a number of specialist training schools are all under ANATC HQ. The coalition forces are partnered with the ANA to mentor and support formal training through Task Force Phoenix. This program was formalized in April 2003, based near the KMTC coordinating collective and individual training, mentoring, and Coalition Force support.
Each ANA HQ above battalion level has or had an embedded Operational Mentor and Liaison Team OMLT of NATO trainers and mentors acting as liaisons between ANA and ISAF. The OMLTs co-ordinate operational planning and ensure that the ANA units receive enabling support. 7 Pending on the readiness of each HQ, they go through a transition, following which the international mentor team leaves the ANA organisation.
Formal education and professional development is currently conducted at two main ANATC schools, both in Kabul. The National Military Academy of Afghanistan, located near Kabul International Airport, is a four-year military university, which will produce degreed second lieutenants in a variety of military professions. NMAA s first cadet class entered its second academic year in spring 2006. The Command and General Staff College, located in southern Kabul, prepares mid-level ANA officers to serve on brigade and corps staffs. France established the CGSC in early 2004, and a cadre of French Army instructors continues when. to oversee operations at the school. A National Defense University will also be established at a potential site in northwestern Kabul. Eventually all initial officer training to include the NMAA as well as the CGSC will be re-located to the new NDU facility.
Individual basic training is conducted primarily by Afghan army instructors and staff at ANATC s Kabul Military Training Center, situated on the eastern edge of the capital. The Afghan armed forces are still supported, however, with various levels of CSTC-A oversight, mentorship, and assistance. The United States armed forces assist in the basic and advanced training of enlisted recruits, and also runs the Drill Instructor School which produces new training NCOs for the basic training courses.
The NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan NATC-A trains, equips and advises the AAF. There were three NATC-A air expeditionary training groups embedded with AAF air wings at Kabul International Airport where the AAF Kabul Air Wing, the Kandahar International Airport where the AAF Kandahar Air Wing and at Shindand Air Base where the AAF Shindand Air Wing are located as well as detachments at smaller AAF locations such as Herat. The NATO air advisors also serve as liaisons with various IJC regional commands to facilitate and deconflict AAF air missions. NATC-A also trains, equips and supports the ANP s Air Interdiction Unit as the AIU conducts counternarcotic and ANP logistics missions across Afghanistan. 8 All these various efforts are managed on the Coalition side by a one-star level multi-national command headquartered at the Kabul International Airport where the AAF is headquartered.
Further information: Afghan National Police
New graduates of the Afghan National Police ANP sitting at the Ministry of the Interior in Kabul.
Members of the honor guard for the ANP at the Recruit Training Camp in Kandahar Province.
The Afghan National Police ANP program is the police part of the ANSF. The ANP will continue growing to a 160,000 police force comprising Afghan Border Police, Uniform Police, Afghan National Civil Order Police ANCOP, Counter Narcotics Police, and Afghan Local Police ALP. In 2009 the training requirement shifted from force production to sustainment of the force and professionalization of the force.
This will be accomplished by completing the border police end strength to 18,000 with 1,550 new border police completing basic training. ANCOP will reach its authorized level by training 2,100 new ANCOP policemen.
Basic training for 3,500 new Uniform Police is planned to stop attrition in the ANP. With the force at 126,000 the remaining training capability will be used for professional courses to include a new advanced police course projected to train 3,200 graduates of the basic police training. These courses are required to provide a professional force free from corruption that can enforce the Rule of Law.
Afghan Border Police ABP in Herat Province.
Female ANP officers stands at attention during a pass and review formation before the start of the International Women s Day ceremony at the Ministry of Interior in Kabul on March 4, 2010.
Specialized training courses such as: Bayman and Panshir Model Police, Justice and Corrections program, literacy program, criminal investigation division, counter terrorism program, Border Police training, Domestic violence, Sexual Assault, Professional standards Units, Family Assistance Unit, Trafficking in Persons Program, Senior Leadership English Language, Medic Training, TIP Courses, Tactical Training Program SWAT, Public Order Program, FTO/PTP, Drivers Training and Records Identification Program. Provides for ANP Counter-Improvised Explosive Device CIED / Explosive Ordnance Disposal EOD initial training. These funds will train 16 eight man teams on IED defeat mechanisms.
The course will be a comprehensive three level training that will be used within the ANP units. The contract will include a complete train the trainer program to stand-up and train all CIED teams within the ANP and a team for the EOD School. Train-the-Trainer approach will allow reduction in mentors beginning in FY10. Combat medic training supports the ongoing operations, continuing development, and future expansion of the ANP Kabul Clinic, 4 Regional Clinics, and various other mini-clinics throughout the ANP area of responsibility.
Provides for attendance and training at the FBI Academy s Law Enforcement Executive Development Course, Police Partnership Training events and Passport Processing/Customs Training events. Preventive Medicine training sustains the long-term conservation platforms for the operating strength of the ANP. Program will teach personal hygiene and sanitation procedures to reduce the disease rate and potentially increase the daily strength available for operations.
Provides instructors and advisors to support a curriculum that will prepare recruits in specialized areas of law enforcement such as criminal investigation and special weapons and tactics. Includes instructors for the Afghan National Civil Order Police ANCOP National Training Facility at Adraskan. Because of the decades of turmoil in Afghanistan, there is a dearth of trained legal experts and legal staff that can step into the MoI s Legal Advisor department without significant remedial training provided in the program. The Fire Department Training Facility will train up to 450 per year. The Fire Department will need a dedicated training facility in Kabul providing initial, special and sustainment training for the Fire Departments across the country.
This budget item will provide for the construction of this specialized facility and training equipment and practical exercise burn house and well as first aid training and associated training aids. Program will, in conjunction with the MoI Staff, develop and publish needed doctrine for the Afghan National Police. These publications will include: policy and procedure manual, First Aid Publication, Fire Department Operations Manual, Criminal Investigation Field Manual, Border Police Operations Manual, Afghanistan National Civil Order Police Operations Manual, a Weapons Training Manual for Fire Arms Instructors, and a Field Training Officers FTO Manual.
These projects are to provide needed police doctrine while their production will enable the MoI to develop a fully functional doctrine section. Basic literacy remains a significant issue due to the low literacy rate of the adult. Literacy is required for advancement/promotion beyond Patrolman rank for all ANP organizations; English literacy is vitally important for senior ANP force leadership and bringing ANP organizations up to international standards. Initiates Dari/Pashto and Low Intensity English Literacy programs in each Regional/Zones beginning at Regional Command locations Jalalabad, Gardez, Kandahar, Herat, and Mazar-e-Sharif.
ANP cadets eating at the Kabul training center Student Dining Facility
Germans German Police Training Center at Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh Province 400 capacity
Turkey Turkish Police Training Center, Wardak Province 50 capacity
Czech Republic Czech Police Training Center, Logar Province 90 capacity
Italy Italian Carabinieri run Adraskan National Training Center, Herat Province 800 capacity
United Kingdom British run Helmand Police Training Center, Helmand Province 150 capacity
Canada Canadian run TSS Costall, Kandahar Province 200 capacity The Canadians also run FOB Walton, Kandahar Province 200 capacity
New Zealand Kiwi run Crime Scene Investigator school at RTC Bamiyan, Bamiyan Province 72 capacity
France Gendarmerie initiative to run RLC Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh Province 300 capacity ; and Gendarmerie execution by 5 December 2009 for NCO to Officer OCS schooling
Netherlands Dutch built, U.S. run TSS Tarin Kwot, Uruzgan Province 150 capacity
In 2012, according to NATO, 31 coalition service members have died as of 10 August 2012 due to the deliberate actions of Afghan forces or insurgents disguised in Afghan uniforms. 9 The increase in so called green-on-blue attacks have prompted U.S. officials to revamp the screening process of potential Afghan recruits as Afghan military leadership have identified hundreds of Afghan soldiers within their rank who are linked to the Taliban insurgency or harbor anti-American views. 10 Most of the attackers in these incidents were members of the special Afghan Local Police ALP units, who operate as a local tribal force and are known to have ties to the Taliban. 11 12 They are also known to use drugs and are sometimes reported for abusing civilians. 13 The Long War Journal did a report on such attacks, counting 80 between 2008–13. 14 Sometimes the ANA fighter will flee to the Taliban, who will then post a video welcoming the assassin. 14
With the drawdown of forces, NTM-A was re-designated CJ7 and became a Staff Element under Headquarters ISAF in September 2014. CJ7 further reduced numbers as ISAF transitioned into Resolute Support. citation needed
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A shield-shaped embroidered device 3 3 4 inches 9.5 cm in height and 2 inches 5.1 cm in width within a 1 8 inch 0.32 cm yellow border blazoned: Per quarter Azure and Celeste, with a fillet cross couped to base surmounted by an annulet charged with a polestar Argent. The polestar is faceted with the opposing facets in fess of the first and the opposing facets in pale of the second. Attached to the top are two Oriental Blue scrolls bordered Yellow, the top is inscribed NTM-A and the scroll below is inscribed NATO-OTAN in Black letters.
The blue and white are NATO colors and the polestar is the NATO emblem. NATO is North Atlantic Treaty Organization and OTAN is Organisation du traité de l Atlantique Nord which is NATO in French. The addition of the darker blue quartering signifies the Afghanistan national treasure of lapis lazuli gems. The yellow border along with the polestar and the annulet signifies the excellence in the Coalition and Joint Forces. The shoulder sleeve insignia was approved on 3 November 2010.
Combat Service Identification Badge CSIB edit
A silver color metal and enamel device 2 inches 5.1 cm in height consisting of a design similar to the shoulder sleeve insignia.
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NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan ACU Patch Velcro patch for wear with the Army Multicam Uniform.
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Robert W. Cone, Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan commanding general, shakes hands with Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, Afghan minister of defense, during a shoulder sleeve insignia ceremony, Oct. 16, 2008, at Camp Eggers in Kabul Afghanistan. During the ceremony, CSTC-A key leader s Afghan counter parts replaced the previously worn Central Command patch with the new CSTC-A patch
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Symbolizing the close partnership and teamwork between the Afghan national security force and combined security transition command - Afghanistan, CSTC-A s first patch was unveiled and distributed at a shoulder sleeve insignia patch ceremony, Oct. 16, 2008, at Camp Eggers.
In attendance at the ceremony were CSTC-A key leaders and their Afghan counterparts, who replaced the previously worn Central Command patch with the new CSTC-A patch.
Insignia are symbolic to a unit s history lineage and pride, said U.S. Maj. Gen. Robert W. Cone, CSTC-A commanding general. This new CSTC-A shoulder sleeve insignia best illustrates the cooperation and teamwork of the new Afghan government, the Afghan national security forces and CSTC-A in the development of a new Afghanistan.
The original patch design was submitted by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brian Posey, a former CSTC-A servicemember, during a contest that invited all CSTC-A personnel to submit ideas for the future CSTC-A SSI.
Using Posey s design, CSTC-A leadership continued to expand the patch to slightly resemble the China, Burma, India SSI patch of Army Gen. Joe Stillwell s unit in Southwestern Asia during World War II.
The new patch is a direct reflection of the U.S. and Afghan partnership and how close we ve become along the way, said U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Aurthur L. Coleman Jr., CSTC-A command sergeant major.
The new patch is a shield-shaped insignia with shafts of wheat extending up from the base and both sides. A Roman gladius short-sword is shown in the center of snow-capped mountains of the Hindu Kush, the foothills of the Himalayas.
The golden stalk of wheat on the patch denote prosperity for the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and the gladius short-sword and infantry crossed rifles show the support for security from the Afghan national security forces, the United States and coalition authorities as they bring peace and stability to the region.
It was designed in close cooperation with the Afghan national army based on Afghan national army symbols and demonstrates just how much CSTC-A is connected to the Afghan national army, said Cone. Based on this partnership cooperation and teamwork, it is only fitting that our ANA friends participate in this historic event today.
Over the past year, while the patch was being designed and created, CSTC-A has made significant growth and progress in developing a more stable security force, said Cone.
The Afghan national army fielded two brigade headquarters and 24 kandaks, 26 units became capable of independent operations; and the Afghan national army units now lead 62 percent of operations, an increase of over 14 percent from last fall.
Additional symbolic representation on the patch includes a set of silver wings behind the short-sword, which denotes the technological and logistical advances of the new Afghan national army air corps.
Throughout the year, the Afghan national air corps has increased its capability and now flies 90 percent of all missions required for its Army, showing growth as a self-sustaining force.
The guest speaker of the ceremony, Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, Afghan minister of defense, expressed his thoughts about the new patch.
I would like to express our profound gratitude, deepest appreciation and heart-filled thanks to every member of the Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan for what they have done, what they are doing and what they will continue to do for my beloved ANA, said Wardak.
I hope and pray that the new Afghanized insignia will bring luck, successes, glories and more victories to every present and future member of CSTC-A, he said.
A unique addition to the new SSI is the sky background, which is composed of the tricolors of the Afghanistan national flag, black, red and green, and is symbolic of a new democracy spreading throughout Afghanistan.
Presenting the colors of our flag deeply touched and enormously impressed not only me but a very gracious Afghan nation, said Gen. Wardak.
This is one step forward in the right direction of building unity and being a part of something great, said Coleman.
With a strong conviction, I can say that no command in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Armed Forces or the international forces has so lasting, so far-reaching and so enduring effects and impacts on the peace, security, stability and future prosperity of this county as the CSTC-A, said Wardak.
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Oct 16, 2008 Afghan national army Command Sgt. Maj. Safi Roshan, command sergeant major for the ANA, and U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Authur L. Coleman.
- Oct 16, 2008 By Seaman Tim Newborn Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan - Symbolizing the close partnership and teamwork.
- The Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan CSTC-A, pronounced see stick-uh, is a multinational military organization. Its primary role is the.
