European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Spunau soldiers the russian equivalents to us. Special forces show How to use entrenching tools As weapons. Pea Ceke a Milestone in  cooperation spec. Anthony Airgood tries to talk with it. Slava Gusarov using a Book with a few russian phrases. Sis Wayna v. Halt wednesday september 21,1994 the stars and Stripe by Wayne v. Hall staff writer the joint . Exercise dubbed peacekeeper 94 a More than a year in the making a was another important Milestone in cooperation Between the two governments. The Road Toto Skoye it Russia where the 1 a Day exercise was held this month began almost 18 months ago at a meeting Between . President Clinton and russian president Boris Yeltsin according to it. Col Michael r. Simone a foreign area officer working with the american exercise staff for peacekeeper 94. It was then that Yeltsin agreed to develop a strategic partnership. Quot among issues discussed at the time was the possibility of cooperation and things in the peacekeeping realm Quot said Simone whose area of expertise is the former soviet Union. Quot this was not to say that there was any specific proposal to operate in a particular area of the world but that we could learn from each other s experiences in peacekeeping and maybe share something about the doctrine techniques procedures and  later both Milit Aries began developing plans internally. Last september . Secretary of defense William Perry met with the russian minister of defense general of the army Pavel Grachev in Washington and the two agreed to conduct a joint peacekeeping exercise. A series of meetings were held in Wurzburg Germany a the Headquarters of the 3rd inf div the american unit selected to participate a and in to Skoye Simone said. At the same time similar sessions were being hosted by the army s training and doctrine come at fort continued on Page 18