MASTER Sgt. Stanley Iakopo has accomplished coaching on the U.S. Air Drive Particular Operations College in Florida.
Iakopo, who spent 5 years with the Indo-Pacific Command Particular Operations Command Pacific and was transferred to the forty fourth Aerial Port Squadron at Andersen Air Drive Base on Guam, is at present assigned to the thirty sixth Wing Headquarters Plans, Packages, and Readiness Program.
He mentioned the USAFSOS prepares particular operations airmen to efficiently plan, arrange, and execute world particular operations by offering indoctrination and schooling for Air Drive Particular Operations Command, different U.S. Particular Operations Command elements, and joint/interagency/ coalition companions.
He mentioned the main target of the course was China-Taiwan-U.S. relations, together with INDOPACOM, U.S. nationwide technique, China’s domains of conflict in relation to Taiwan and the South China Sea, in addition to its affect all through the Pacific.
“This course gave me a extra encyclopedic information on how crucial nationwide and worldwide international insurance policies are, and the way they’ll influence the CNMI straight and not directly particularly with our susceptible geographical location within the area,” mentioned Iakopo, a former NMI Veterans Affairs government officer.
“We delved in on understanding China’s world insurance policies together with its financial and army growth within the Pacific and the South China Sea,” he added.
He mentioned the coaching additionally offered a greater understanding of the U.S. strategic counter measures that embody enhancing army capabilities and strategic resiliency within the Pacific.
