The Personnel Exchange Programme affords selected British and American officers, warrant officers and non commissioned officers (NCO) the opportunity to study each other’s army at close quarters for an extended period.

American NCO on exchange in UK, exercising with the Royal Artillery on Salisbury Plain

Personnel on the programme fill a post in the other army for a period of 2 years. The programme is fully reciprocal; a US officer or NCO fills a British Army appointment for each US Army post filled by a British officer or NCO.

Currently more than 40 members of each army are in the programme in almost every area of military life. Some of the exchange personnel even instruct members of the other army in their own tactics.

In addition, British Servicemen regularly attend courses run at US Army training establishments such as the Command and General Staff College and the Army War College, and US officers attend courses at the equivalent British establishments.

Such interchange plays an important part in developing the armies’ close understanding of each other’s doctrine, organisation and procedures, which is essential to enable them to operate together as effective coalition partners.

BEOs are stationed in the following locations:
- US Army Engineering School, Ft Leonard Wood, Missouri
- 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, Ft Hood, Texas
- US Army Infantry School, Ft Benning, Georgia
- 3/16th Cavalry, Ft Knox, Kentucky
- Defense Distribution Center, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania
- US Army Command and General Staff College, Ft Leavenworth, Kansas
- US Army Signals Center, Ft Gordon, Georgia
- 82nd Airborne Division, Ft Bragg, North Carolina
- HQ III Corps Artillery, Ft Sill, Oklahoma
- US Army Military Police School, Ft Leonard Wood, Missouri
- HQ 31st Air Defence Artillery Brigade, Ft Bliss, Texas 
- 1st Cavalry Division, Ft Hood, Texas
- US Army Aviation Center, Ft Rucker, Alabama
- US Army National Ground Intelligence Center, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Pentagon, Washington DC
- US Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, Ft Rucker, Alabama
- Rhoades Dental Clinic, Ft Sam Houston, Texas
- 1-13th Aviation Regiment, Ft Rucker, Alabama
- US Army Transportation School, Ft Eustis, Virginia
- US Army Intelligence Center, Ft Huachuca, Arizona
- National Training Center, Ft Irwin, California
- US Army Logistics College, Ft lee, Virginia
- Joint Readiness Training Center, Ft Polk, Louisiana
- HQ Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Arlington, Virginia
- US Army Combined Arms Support Command, Ft Lee, Virginia
- 5/16 Cavalry Regiment, Ft Knox, Kentucky
- 10th Mountain Division, Ft Drum, New York
- Ft Monmouth, New Jersey
- US Army Field Artillery School, Ft Sill, Oklahoma
- 3rd Infantry Division, Ft Stewart, Georgia
- National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Bethesda, Maryland
- US Military Academy, West Point, New York