Fighting Against the „Invisible Enemy”

The objective of the training is to allow the soldiers to learn the kinds of cultural, social and psychological signs that may help them with filtering out terrorists from among civilians in the area of operations. The exercise was conducted by the students of the HDF NCO Academy.

During the C-IED Situational Awareness Training (CSAT) course, NCOs mounted patrols in an “Afghan village" built by the opposing force (OPFOR) company of the HDF Bakony Combat Training Centre. The trainers demonstrated the small warning signs that one can discern as behavioral clues by constructing a scenario in which all the local people left the scene in a hurry when the first vehicle rolled onto the “marketplace". At that point, the patrol leader must have suspected that something went wrong. In cases like this, the next stage of the exercise scenario – this time “enacted" by the soldiers – may occur in real life too, as the second vehicle of the convoy ran into an IED ambush and “exploded".

The soldiers had to adapt themselves to the unexpected situation and while being in contact with the enemy, they used the remaining vehicles to evacuate the injured, and blew up the abandoned wreck so that the enemy cannot seize it.

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Photo: Gábor Galovtsik