Secretary of the Army John McHugh speaks with Maj. Gen. B. Bayarmagnai, deputy chief of general staff, Mongolian Armed Forces, and an exercise participant about the various courses held during exercise Khaan Quest 2012, Aug. 15, at the Mongolian Armed...
Maj. Gen. B. Bayarmagnai, deputy chief of general staff, Mongolian Armed Forces, speaks with Marine Maj. Scot Jaworski, Regimental logistics officer, 11th Marine Regiment, Camp Pendleton, Calif., as Secretary of the Army John McHugh looks on during...
Secretary of the Army John McHugh speaks with Command Sgt. Maj. Clinton K. Brown II, the senior noncommissioned officer with the 297th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, Alaska Army National Guard, and his daughter, Sgt. Michelle D. Brown, a military...
Secretary of the Army John McHugh responds to questions during an interview with Sgt. Michelle D. Brown, a military photojournalist with the 134th Public Affairs Detachment, Alaska Army National Guard. McHugh was observing exercise Khaan Quest 2012 in...
Secretary of the Army John McHugh speaks with Capt. Walter Hotch-Hill, logistics officer, 1-297th Reconnaissance and Surveillance Squadron, Alaska Army National Guard, during a visit during exercise Khaan Quest 2012, Aug. 15, held at the Mongolian...
Secretary of the Army John McHugh and Spc. Joseph P. Kelly II, a medic with 1-297th Reconnaissance and Surveillance Squadron, share a light moment Aug. 15 during McHugh's visit to exercise Khaan Quest 2012, a regularly scheduled, multinational exercise...
Secretary of the Army John McHugh walks with Maj. Gen. B. Bayarmagnai, deputy chief of general staff, Mongolian Armed Forces, during a visit to observe Khaan Quest 2012 held at the Mongolian Armed Forces Peace Support Center in the vicinity of...
Secretary of the Army John McHugh observed a battalion-level staff exercise and met with Mongolian defense officials during Exercise Khaan Quest 2012, Aug. 15 near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. A regularly scheduled, multinational exercise in its 10th year, KQ12 is sponsored by the U.S. Army, Pacific, and hosted annually by the Mongolian Armed Forces. The Mongolian Armed Forces are highly regarded by American Soldiers who have served with them in Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently, approximately 700 troops conduct base security in Afghanistan and train the Afghan National Army artillery. In March, Mongolia was designated as the first NATO "partner" under the Individual Partnership and Cooperation Program.
