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We enter the  Training Center on February 5, 2018 for 2 weeks. We will be learning Humanitarian/Welfare principles and the does and don'ts in foreign countries the first week, then we will learn PMG for the next week and fly to Istanbul on Monday the 19th. Hope to be in Kyrgyzstan around the 22nd.

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