WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Southern Command issued the following press release:
Noncommissioned officers from the Massachusetts National Guard and their Paraguayan Armed Forces partners gathered Sept. 15-18 for a professional development event designed to build essential leadership skills they need to guide formations, support leaders and care for troops.
Sixty members of the Paraguayan Armed Forces attended the bilateral engagement that capped more than three years of coordination and collaboration among senior enlisted leaders from Massachusetts and Paraguay. The engagement highlighted the partnership that began in 2001 between the Massachusetts National Guard and Paraguay through the Department of War Nati...