What is a MiTT Team?

Good Monday Morning EVERYONE!!

I have a number of people asking me what is Nick exactly doing overseas, especially once they know he has temporarily left his primary duty of being a crewchief on the CH-53. Nick is on a Mitt (Military Transition Team.) Then there is the million dollar question of what is a Mitt? Well, here is part of a “article” I found that seams to describe what they are.

military transition team

A Military Transition Team, MiTT is a U.S. Army or Marine team that embeds lives with and trains the Iraqi Army, the Afghan National Army and other allies in the War on Terror. With the help of up to 6 local national interperters the MiTTs advise the fledgling security forces in the areas of intelligence, communications, fire support, logistics and infantry tactics. The aim is to make the Iraqi unit (at battalion, brigade, or division level) self-sustainable tactically, operationally and logistically so that the battalion is prepared to take over responsibility for battle space. Also, MiTTs can, if necessary, call in U.S. air support and battle assistance, thus boosting confidence and troop morale. In Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, the transition teams are a central part of the strategy to train and equip national security forces, hand over battle space and reduce Coalition troop levels. MiTTs also report misconduct and allow the U.S. Military to monitor the level of professionalism of the fledgling security force. Police Transition Teams, PiTT provide a similar function for the Iraqi Police, however, due to the larger number of police units, PiTTs are frequently based out of Coalition bases and rotate to various local police stations.

If anyone is interested in reading more, you can find the page where this came from here http://www.answers.com/topic/military-transition-team Ok, well better get back to emailing and stuff. I WILL  be updatine the Family Blog today without fail. So be on the look out of that!!! Hope everyone has a great day.

Melanie and Kiddos