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S A S O L D I E RtrainingSA Navy Officer graduatesin HonoluluBy Michael E. Daniels, Deputy ChiefPublic Affairs Office: APCSSPhoto: APCSS Photo/VisualInformationThe course is designed to build relationships betweenthe United States and other countries.Cdr Mfanelo Bongco (SA Navy)graduated from the Asia-Pacific Center for SecurityStudies' ComprehensiveSecurity Responses toTerrorism Course in Honoluluon 24 March 2011. He received his diplomafrom the Dean of Academics of theAsia-Pacific Center for Security Studies,Ms Lauren Kahea Moriarty.Cdr Bongco joined 85 other military andcivilian participants who attended thefour-week course. They came from 46locations, primarily the Asia-Pacificregion, but including the rest of theworld. There were representatives fromAfghanistan, Australia, the Bahamas,Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Cambodia,China, Colombia, El Salvador, Fiji,Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, HongKong, India, Indonesia, Jordan,Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia,Maldives, Mauritius, Mongolia, Nepal,New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua NewGuinea, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda,Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands,South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland,Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Tuvalu, the United Statesand Vietnam.The Course provides key states in theAsia-Pacific region and other designatedcountries with the operational and strategic-levelskills necessary to enhance theirability to combat terrorism and to cooperatewith each other. The course isdesigned to build relationships betweenCdr Mfanelo Bongco from the SA Navy (left) receives his graduationcertificate from the Dean of Academics of the Asia-PacificCenter for Security Studies, Ms Lauren Kahea Moriarty.the United States and other countriesand provide current and future counterterrorismpractitioners with the trustand confidence necessary for increasedinformation sharing, and to identifyways to reduce obstacles to co-operationin the international struggle againstthose who use terror to promote theirgoals.The Asia-Pacific Center for SecurityStudies is a Department of Defense academicinstitute that addresses regionaland global security issues. Military andcivilian representatives of the US andthe Asia-Pacific nations participate in itscomprehensive programme of executiveeducation, professional exchanges andoutreach events, both in Hawaii andthroughout the region. The mission ofthe Asia-Pacific Center for SecurityStudies is to educate, connect andempower security practitioners toadvance security in the Asia-Pacificregion.Since its opening in 1995 the Asia-PacificCenter for Security Studies has had 55639 alumni representing 99 countries andterritories attend courses at the Center.30• J U N E 2 0 1 1