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  • RECENT EVENTS
    Our new campus

    Work has begun to renovate the historic Fort Benning Station Hospital, opened in 1925, to become the permanent campus of WHINSEC. Beginning late 2012, the Institute will move in, with full operation on the site in 2014.

  • RECENT EVENTS
    Undersecretary of the Army Visit

    Undersecretary of the Army, the Hon. Dr. Joseph Westphal, visited the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and gave a perspective of the future of the Army and of U.S Security Cooperation efforts to 70 faculty and students in the Command and Staff Course. Referring to WHINSEC and its mission, Dr. Westphal said, "It's critically important that we continue expanding partnerships in areas of mutual interest and expand security cooperation throughout . the Western Hemisphere. Institutes like this are important because it brings us together and allows us to build relationships and address shared challenges."

  • RECENT EVENTS
    3rd Annual Current Operations Symposium

    Senior officers from Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico, along with the Vice Minister of Public Security in Costa Rica close out the 3rd Annual Current Operations Symposium with a lively panel discussion of issues relating to disaster management, illicit trafficking, and border security, Fri, Mar 29.

  • RECENT EVENTS
    Fast-Rope Rappelling from a UH-60 Blackhawk

    Fast-rope rappelling from a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter is one of the many subjects these students in the Counterdrug Operations Course learn and practice. Each counterdrug course also goes to the Navy Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, for a week of riverine operations with NAVSCIATTS students.

  • RECENT EVENTS
    11th Anniversary

    WHINSEC celebrated its 11th Anniversary in January, 2012, with a video review of its history. During those years, almost 14,000 students representing 34 partner nations took courses at the Institute from its diverse mix of U.S. military and civilian instructors; partner nation instructors, and visiting experts from government and non-governmental agencies.

  • RECENT EVENTS
    Thomas P. Kelly Visit

    The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Thomas P. Kelly, came to the Institute for an overview of its activities and to explore opportunities to expand the relationship with DoS. The two-day visit focused on the Intermediate Level Education course (formerly the Command and Staff Officer Course) and how suitable it may be for Foreign Service Officers from the State Department who have a Western Hemisphere interest. (WHINSEC has one State Department Foreign Service Officer on faculty.)

WHINSEC FAST FACTS
WHINSEC Current Facts, May 4, 2012
Six courses in session, 234 students from 14 countries
Class Activities during the week of May 7-11:

Intermediate Level Education Course
(47 students) conducts Spring Elective Courses: Leadership Techniques, Managing the Process, Train Your Staff, Homeland Security, and LATAM Strategic Studies.

Cadet Leadership Development Course
(91 students) will be studying Map Reading, then conducting Day and Night Land Navigation, and a Field Training Exercise.

NCO Professional Development Course
(48 students) will be studying Fundamentals of Marksmanship, Casualty Evacuation, Troop Leading Procedures, Plans Orders and Annexes, Tactical Operations Report, Combat Operations, Detainees Operations, Occupying an Assembly Area, and Counter Insurgency Operations.

Civil Affairs Operations Course
(23 students) will be participating in a Columbus Emergency Management Office exercise, studying a Disaster Relief Case Study, visiting FEMA Region IV, and conducting a final Evaluated Exercise.

Engineer Operations Course
(16 students) will study Humanitarian DeMining, review lessons learned from the Field Studies Trip.

Army Instructor Course
(10 students) will conduct a Field Studies Trip, study Democracy and Human Rights, and Communications Techniques.

Operational Information Analyst Course
Course will be inprocessing, beginning classes on Democracy, Ethics and Human Rights.

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