Sárosi’s Valor 2012

The troops of the EUFOR-11 HUN CON are being “validated" on a three-day CULEX “Sárosi’s Valor 2012". (Ferenc Rákóczi II adopted the pseudonym “Count Sárosi" during his exile in Poland after the defeat of the uprising.) The subunit commenced training in February, most of its personnel serve with the HDF 37th “Ferenc Rákóczi II" Engineer Regiment of Szentes, while 30 per cent are drawn from the HDF 12th Arrabona SAM Regiment of Győr.
Their training program started with the individual training for the soldiers, continued with a central specialization training, then the cohesion of the subunit was built up in Szentes from mid-April on.

Lt.-Col. Péter Somogyi is the leader of the umpires who are tasked with assessing the contingent members’ readiness on the three-day CULEX. The commander of the command and control (C2) battalion of the SAM Regiment of Győr assessed the events of the first day as “satisfactory". Based on the umpires’ report, he concluded that the rapid reaction force had accomplished the task, although there are still some small defects that must be corrected in the coming days.

Lt.-Col. Gábor Bartók, the designated commander of the subunit told us that the EUFOR-11 HUN CON is scheduled to deploy to Sarajevo in early summer. As part of a multinational force conducting the EU-led Operation ALTHEA in Sarajevo, its mission will be to contribute to the crisis management in the area of the former Yugoslavia, by maintaining peace and a safe and secure environment (SASE) for the civil population. Additionally, it may participate in weapons collection, general and specific information gathering activities (IGA), operations against persons indicted with war crimes, searching and protecting areas and properties with designated special status, reconnoitering routes, escorting convoys, transports and VIPs and – at the request of the local law enforcement organs – in crowd and riot control (CRC) tasks as well.