Broader Military Relationship
The agreed-upon military survey team, under the leadership of Colonel O’Keefe, arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1949, and the resultant 50-page “O’Keefe Report”, submitted to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in January 1950, provided the "first comprehensive U.S. plan for building a modern Saudi armed forces.”
In 1951 the year-to-year leasing agreement was retired in favor of what eventually became known as the Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement, one component of which was the deployment of U.S. military personnel to the Kingdom to provide military training to Saudi Arabia. These personnel were the forerunners of what became the United States Military Training Mission (USMTM). USMTM was established on June 27, 1953 and is still a fundamental component of the US/Saudi military relationship.
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