Joint Training in Kosovo

The first day of the joint training program started with a demonstration of individual crowd and riot control (CRC) techniques, then the soldiers learned about the CRC methods of different nations on squad and platoon levels. In what followed, the soldiers practiced the types of action to be taken to counter the effects of incendiary bombs, i.e. the Molotov-coctails (“Fire phobia" training). In the afternoon, all participating nations displayed their technical equipment.

In the morning of the second day, the peacekeepers practiced how combat vehicles may be used on company level in CRC operations. In the afternoon they mounted a culmination exercise – with the participation of the elements of the FOMD-II and the Water Cannon Squad – to demonstrate their skills. According to the hypothetical scenario, the multinational CRC subunit was tasked with dispersing a crowd of protesters which had set up two road blocks.

The Portuguese–Hungarian staff bore the brunt of the work in planning and executing the tasks. “I am happy that we have been able to organize a successful and effective training session. We can learn most of the useful lessons from each other", Capt. Csaba Hegedüs, the deputy chief operations of the KFOR Tactical Reserve Maneuver Battalion (KTM), the officer scheduling the complex training and exercise told us.

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