Ohio–Hungary National Guard Partnership

Since then, Ohio and Hungary have conducted over 150 SPP events in a host of security cooperation activities ranging from bilateral familiarizations, small unit exchanges, exercises, senior military and civic leader visits to deployments of Operational Mentoring and Liaison Teams (OMLT) in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

It is a partnership that involves an ongoing dialog about the day-to-day challenges we both face and our willingness to think outside the box in finding solutions."

– MG Greg Wayt, former Adjutant General, Ohio National Guard [3] Overview: As the Soviet Union disintegrated between 1989 and 1991, Hungary conducted their first free parliamentary election in May 1990.

[4] One of the key measurements of success for this partnership is the progress that was accomplished beyond events that only demonstrated basic capabilities and equipment.

This has promoted and fostered the exchange of ideas and experiences which has assisted Hungary in accomplishing: Events in 2012 included a TAG Visit, a Recruiting and Recruiting Seminar, Consequence Management, Disaster Response/Crisis Management Planning, Medical Support to Deployed Forces, Helicopter Air Support Operations, and a Logistics Information Exchange.

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Soldiers from Hungary and Ohio conduct amphibious landing training in Hungary.
Soldiers from Hungary and Ohio carry a litter during a training exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Germany in 2012.
Major General Deborah A. Ashenhurst, Adjutant General of Ohio, participates in a review of troops ceremony during a visit to Hungary.
A crew chief in the Ohio Air National Guard shows a Hungarian air force aircraft maintainer the nose landing gear on an F-16 Fighting Falcon during an exercise in Hungary.
A Hungarian soldier and his Ohio Army National Guard sponsor study convoy operations April 25 while attending BNCOC at the state's Regional Training Institute.