Culmination Exercise in Szolnok and Táborfalva

The pre-deployment training for the 32nd rotation of the Hungarian contingent in Cyprus (UNFICYP-32 HUN CON) has ended. The last trial was a CULEX that took place in the military training area of Táborfalva, with the participation of the 59-strong contingent made up of Hungarian and Serb soldiers. During the complex CULEX, all trainees were executing their assigned tasks in the roles of their planned positions. To ensure this, the peacekeepers under training were practicing at the same posts and in the same organizational structure as in the island.

Thanks to the trainers’ devoted work, the members of the contingent were able to master and practice in realistic situations the skills that are required to fill their future positions. To ensure realistic conditions, all posts where Hungarian soldiers serve in Cyprus were modeled in the military training area of Táborfalva.

On July 25, 2012, twelve soldiers and twelve policemen started the pre-deployment training for the 35th rotation – which is due in the first days of September 2012 – of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) stationed in the Sinai Peninsula.

On July 19, the 24 personnel participating in the joint training program of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of the Interior first took a written test of the theoretical knowledge they had acquired on the training, then they had opportunity to demonstrate their aptitude for the mission abroad in a complex practice session. Some of the tasks the personnel were assigned on the CULEX are everyday and typical duties of the MFO mission, but the exercise was not exclusively made up of these routine tasks. By assessing the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of the training audience, the trainers obtained a reliable picture of the final composition of the leaving Hungarian contingent at the July 20 personal interviews.

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