A contingent of New Zealand soldiers will train in the United States for the first time in almost 30 years.
The Defence Force is sending 34 engineers and a medic to Camp Pendleton in California to train, Radio New Zealand reports.
US Marines and soldiers have also been in New Zealand over the past two months taking part in the first large-scale combat exercise involving the two nations in New Zealand in 27 years.
The US personnel have been training alongside 1500 NZ soldiers, US military news website Stars and Stripes reports.
The combat training is the first conducted since the US suspended ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, US) Treaty obligations to New Zealand in 1986 after the country's Labour government passed anti-nuclear legislation that banned nuclear-powered US Navy ships from New Zealand's waters.
Much of the exercise was conducted at Waiouru.
Retired US Air Force Colonel Ralph Cossa, who works with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Hawaii, told Stars and Stripes he didn't think the training signalled a softening of US attitudes to New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy.
Despite their differences, the US and New Zealand have cooperated in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor in recent years.
A US Marine Corps band will visit New Zealand next month to mark the 70th anniversary of the marines first landing there.
The New Zealand Defence Force is also sending the New Zealand Navy frigate Te Kaha and tanker Endeavour, the Operational Dive Team and 200 sailors and soldiers to take part in the world's biggest maritime exercise, RIMPAC, off Hawaii next month.
