Since then, Ohio and Serbia have conducted over a hundred SPP events in a host of security cooperation activities ranging from bilateral familiarizations, small unit exchanges, exercises, senior military and civic leader visits to the potential development of future Medical Readiness Training Exercise (MEDRETE).

All activities are coordinated through the Theater Combatant Commanders, the US Ambassadors' country teams and other agencies as appropriate, to ensure that National Guard support is tailored to meet both U.S. and Serbia's objectives.

- MG Greg Wayt, former Adjutant General, Ohio National Guard The partnership between the Ohio National Guard and the Serbian Armed Forces is of immense importance for both sides, especially for Serbia, a militarily neutral country in the heart of Europe, for which this partnership represents great opportunity for developing more efficient military cooperation with NATO and fostering better diplomatic relations with the United States.

The reason for this is the existence of a large Serbian community in the Great Lakes region, which, apart from Illinois, Pennsylvania and Indiana, is very numerous in Ohio,[7] primarily in Cleveland, but also the fact that the long-term governor of Ohio was the later senator George Voinovich, who was of Serbian origin and a very respected man in Serbia due to commitment to the peaceful resolution of conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia.

On the horizon, the Ohio and Serbian relationship will be instrumental in the continual development of Serbia's Peace Keeping Operations.

With the construction of a training center (South Base); sharing in exercise preparations; NCO development and air field support of peacekeeping missions, Ohio and Serbia can be a model of how close coordination and cooperation between the United States and Serbia can promote mutually beneficial events.