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Crowd Riot Control Training Completed

Szöveg: Sándor Galambos |  2012. december 3. 9:00

The pre-deployment training for the eighth rotation of the HDF KFOR Contingent has ended. The soldiers of the Hungarian peacekeeping unit conducted a culmination exercise (CULEX) in the presence of a group of supervisors from the HDF Joint Force Command inside the Hódmezővásárhely barracks of the HDF 5th Bocskai István Infantry Brigade on November 28. They were tasked with dispersing a violent crowd that behaved aggressively towards the patrols.

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The eighth rotation of the HDF Kosovo Force (KFOR) contingent (KFOR-8 HUN CON) demonstrated its readiness on a three-day culmination exercise “Firewall-2012". The peacekeepers had started their pre-deployment training on September 3. During the first phase the soldiers received individual training. The second phase comprised the trade training programs for signallers, combat medics and logisticians. The personnel were welded together in the third phase which started on October 24.

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The bulk of the close to 200-strong subunit is drawn from the HDF 5th Bocskai István Infantry Brigade Operations Engineer Battalion of Hódmezővásárhely. The designate commander of the contingent is Lt.-Col. (Eng.) Ferenc Bátor, his deputy is Maj. Árpád Szász, while Capt. Péter Csönge is the commander of the operations company. The contingent is planned to deploy to Kosovo in February in two phases.

As part of the Portuguese-led KFOR Tactical Reserve Maneuver Battalion (KTM), the Hungarian soldiers will be tasked, among others, with ensuring freedom of movement on the roads, presence patrolling, maintaining a safe and secure environment, crisis management and protection of properties with designated special status (PDSS).

Conducted in the presence of the team of supervisors from the HDF Joint Force Command on November 28, the CULEX spectacularly showed that the members of the contingent are ready to execute their tasks.

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Answering our question, Col. Ferenc Bátor told us that the “exam" was Crowd Riot Control (CRC). The fictitious conflict situation arose because one platoon of the subunit encountered a road block while on patrol. The road block had been constructed by hostile and violent local residents who were hurling abuse at the KFOR troops, flailing clubs and throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at them. The platoon leader and the field chaplain accompanying the unit first tried to bring the increasingly aggressive demonstrators to their senses, but when they failed the maneuver company was deployed to the scene.

Maj. Gusztáv Könyves, the commander of the four-man group of supervisors from the HDF JFC was satisfied with what he had seen. Before the official evaluation of the exercise, he shared with us his personal impressions, saying that the soldiers were effectively participating in task execution and presented themselves as a close-knit team, while the commanders were commanding their subordinates properly and were able to force their will on the crowd of demonstrators.

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Photos: bocskaidandar.hu and the author

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