Exercise and Visit at Camp Butmir, Sarajevo

One platoon of the company played the role of an “unruly crowd", while another small team was working as the LOT house personnel.

The Austrian company was tasked with dispersing and pushing back the crowd so that they can safely evacuate the LOT house personnel from the danger zone. The MNBN commander inspected the exercise and evaluated the task execution as satisfactory.

Some days before this exercise a number of students and teachers from the Baár–Madas Reformed Secondary School of Budapest paid a visit to the Hungarian EUFOR contingent in Sarajevo. The visit was part of a longer journey to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. At Camp Butmir, Sarajevo the students had opportunity to watch a spectacular crowd and riot control (CRC) exercise and participated in an armament technology display. Afterwards they made a short excursion to the Tunnel of Life Museum near Camp Butmir, which commemorates the efforts of those who supplied the townspeople with food and medicine, pulling manually the mine cars running on improvised rails through an 800-meter-long and 1.5 meter-high tunnel during the siege of Sarajevo that lasted several years.

After Sarajevo, the Hungarian students visited the Old Bridge in Mostar, in whose reconstruction the troops of the SFOR Hungarian Engineer Contingent played a key role.