Analysts have estimated the number of U.S. troops serving as trainers and advisers in the long term could be as high as 20,000.
Additionally, with support and commitment from the U.S. CDC, the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office, and other development partners, a competency-based epidemiology training program, similar to FETP, was launched and grew promisingly in Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cambodia, with graduates from IFETP-Thailand serving as trainers for these national programs.
LaConner Technologies, which specializes in bringing the Internet to areas with little service, is training trial users and instructing tribe members to serve as trainers.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pressed for an additional 4,000 troops to be sent to Afghanistan — but only to serve as trainers.
The remaining U.S. forces in Afghanistan serve as trainers and advisors for the Afghan army and engage in counter-terrorism operations.
Here, the place is wonderfully grungy and everyone pitches in: Issei creates the fight posters (graphic design is his hobby, and he creates posters for the local soccer and basketball teams, too) and handles administrative work, while his father, Hirotaka, who recently turned 63, and one of his brothers, Kosuke, serve as trainers.
We first established training capacity in these skills by holding workshops for faculty members who would serve as trainers in their college.
After two N.C.A.A. appearances with Winthrop, he applied to be an administrative assistant at West Virginia, where his father, John, has served as trainer since 1975.
But it clearly mattered to him and his eyes filled with tears as he recalled serving as assistant trainer to Walwyn's neighbour and great rival, Fred Winter.
Over lentil soup and mutton stew, I met Ian Duncan, a British army engineer, now living in Muscat, the capital, and serving as a trainer for the Omani armed forces.
Monahan works about 15 hours a week for Hendrick, serving as an athletic trainer for the 45 or so pit crew members employed by the race team.
