US envoy in Bangladesh Earl Robert Miller on Monday visited six-day combined exercise between Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) and the United States (US) Pacific Air Force tilted “Exercise Pacific Angel- 2019-1” being held at Lalmonirhat.
The joint exercise started on Sunday with an opening ceremony held at Lalmonirhat Kadamtola High School premises, an ISPR press release on Monday.
Air Officer Commanding of Bangladesh Air Force Base Birsreshto Matiur Rahman Air Vice Marshal Muhammad Nazrul Islam welcomed the US envoy on his arrival.
Later, Miller visited medical camp organized at Kadamtola High School premises and engineering camp raised at Fokirer Tokeya High School. He also exchanged greetings with the teachers and students of the school.
The US envoy thanked all concerned authorities including Bangladesh Air Force for overall help in conducting the exercise.
A total of 250 BAF members under the command of Group Captain Abbas Ali, GUP, afwc, psc, GD(P) and 100 members of US Pacific Air Force under the command of Major Christofer Falmer are participating in the exercise.
Besides, six doctors from Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand are also taking part in the exercise.
In the exercise, 2000 people living adjacent to the BAF Maintenance and Care Unit at Lalmonirhat are being provided with free medical treatment along with knowledge on post disaster medical care.
The engineers from both the countries are providing assistance in renovating and repairing of damaged and weak structure of selected five schools of the area.
