Junior Leader Academy Training in Ukraine

45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team soldiers discuss training Ukrainian noncommissioned officers near Zhytomyr, Ukraine, on May 22. U.S. Soldiers from the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team assigned to the Joint Multinational Training Group - Ukraine are working alongside Canadian troops to train and evaluate Ukrainian noncommissioned officers. The Junior Leader Academy Training program is designed to prepare Ukrainian noncommissioned officers to train their own troops at home station before their battalions