A group of 33 International Military Officers representing Country’s from each continent spent the past three days at Fort Riley learning about the US Army and how US Soldiers train.

Maj. Gen. William Duffy, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, U.S. Army explained that he is taking the International Officers to Military Installations across the nation and showing them how the US Army works on multiple levels.

“The idea is to build partnerships, friendships, show other Army’s how we work so that when we work together in the future we know each other and can be more successful,” said Maj. Gen. Duffy.

Fort Riley was chosen as one of the stops because it is a Division level post, home of the 1st Infantry Division.

Col. Bengt Alexandersson, Sweden; Army/Armor, explained that he was impressed with what he saw at Fort Riley and the size of the installation.

“It’s really a professional platform for training a good Soldier and good units. I’m really impressed by the huge area that they can really train about two Brigades at one time. That’s one thing I’m taking with me from this area,” said Col. Alexandersson.

During the visit the group took a ground and aerial tour of the post, toured the training center on post and had the opportunity to test out some of the simulators.