150th Peacekeeping Battalion

[citation needed] In 1997, the Mongolian armed forces established the battalion as primarily a combat unit.[1] By order of President Natsagiin Bagabandi however, its duties changed in preparation for peacekeeping missions.Later, the battalion started conducting peacekeeping operations training an in September 2000, one platoon from the battalion participated in CENTRAZBAT 2000 in Kazakhstan, the country's first ever multinational peacekeeping field exercise.[2] It also took part in the multinational peacekeeping exercise SHANTEE-DOOT in Bangladesh in 2002.[5] In early 2004, the then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, General Richard Myers, visited Mongolia and expressed his appreciation for the deployment of a 173-strong contingent from the battalion to Iraq, which was planned to send a fresh force to replace the first contingent later in January 2004.
MongoliaMongolian Ground ForceLight infantryPeacekeepingGeneral Staff of the Mongolian Armed ForcesUlaanbaatarMongolianNatsagiin BagabandiKazakhstanUS MarinesAlaska National GuardKhaan QuestChairman of the Joint Chiefs of StaffUnited StatesGeneralRichard MyersDeputy Assistant Secretary of Defense15th Separate Motor Rifle BrigadeKAZBATNaval Postgraduate SchoolU.S. Army War CollegeJane's Defence Weekly