The article provides a model of cultural awareness applied to the assessment of the manifestation of cultural awareness of military personnel participating in international operations and empirically assesses the manifestation of cultural awareness of the Lithuanian military personnel that have participated in international operations. In the first part of the article, competences constituting cultural awareness and methods of their acquisition are defined and, on the basis of the peculiarities of the cultural awareness of military personnel revealed in the article, a model of cultural awareness is formed. In the second part, the cultural awareness and methods of its acquisition of the Lithuanian military personnel that have participated in international operations is empirically assessed. Having assessed the cultural awareness of the Lithuanian military personnel that have participated in international operations, generalizations and recommendations concerning the cultural awareness of Lithuanian military personnel are provided.