Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team

Operational Mentoring and Liaison Teams (OMLT) is the NATO equivalent of the US Embedded Training Teams (ETT) and operates in Afghanistan . The soldiers are deployed as trainers and military advisers to the Afghan Armed Forces (ANA), and accompany and advise the Afghan soldiers on their operations against insurgents. In addition to accompanying and advising, another task is to coordinate the planning of operations between ANA and ISAF forces. For joint operations, support ranges from medical evacuation to air strikes.

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OMLT military advisor in the OCCP (Operations Coordination Center-Provincial) in Kunduz

OMLT military advisor with a PSL sniper rifle ( sniper rifle on Dragunow basis) in the formation of ANA soldiers .

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The Afghan National Army Training Command (ANATC) has existed since July 2006 and works closely with ISAF and the ANA General Staff .

The main objective of the training is that the ANA can independently ensure the security of the country in the future. The Bundeswehr is currently using Operational Mentoring and Liaison Teams (OMLT) in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif . Before 2013, the Bundeswehr still had OMLT teams in Kunduz and Faizabad .

Lineup

The following countries use teams at OMLT:

• Australia
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Germany
• Finland
• France
• Great Britain
• Italy
• Canada
• Croatia
• Latvia
• Macedonia
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Romania
• Sweden
• Serbia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Czech Republic
• Hungary
• United States

Web links

• German Army: OMLT - out and about with Afghan soldiers
• NATO: Fact Sheet NATO's Operational Mentor And Liaison Teams (OMLTs )
• Spiegel Online: Trainers on a deadly mission

Individual evidence

1. ^ NATO: Fact Sheet NATO's Operational Mentor And Liaison Teams (OMLTs). (PDF) October 2009, accessed on July 11, 2017 (English). 
2. ^ The West: The end of a bloody Bundeswehr mission after ten years in Kunduz. June 5, 2013, accessed July 11, 2017 .