Moldovan, American servicemen reconstruct road to Tiganesti monastery

Chisinau, 16 May /MOLDPRES/- Servicemen of the National Army and the United States are reconstructing a 1.6-km-long road segment to the Tiganesti monastery within the Dragon Pioneer 2016 drills. The road repair project is financed by the Spirit of America! organization.

According to Lieutenant General, Commander of the U.S. Armed Land Forces in Europe Frederick Benjamin Hodges, on a visit to Moldova, the implementation of the project is an opportunity for American servicemen, besides training with partners from the National Army on stricly military dimension, to contribute to achievement of social goals, from which Moldovan citizens will benefit.

For his part, National Army commander, brigadier Igor Cutie said that, during the drills, engineers of the two armies had had the possibility to exchange experience in fulfilling different missions specific for this kind of weapons, including on strictly civil purposes, such as restoration of the road to Tiganesti monastery.

“Dragon Pioneer 2016” drills are carried out in Moldova for the first time ever on 3-20 May 2016. A number of 198 servicemen of the U.S. Cavalry Regiment 2 and 165 military from Engineering Battalion, the 22nd Peacekeeping Battalion, as well as from the brigades 1, 2 and 3 of the National Army are trained in the drills.

(Reporter V. Rusu, editor A. Răileanu)