Dutch–Hungarian Exercise at Újdörögd

Szöveg: Péter Snoj | 2014. március 28. 9:00

During the international Exercise Várpalota Challenge 2014 which started on March 12, CBRN soldiers were also cooperating in order to get to know the lessons learned and share them with each other.

Both nations presented their own methods in the spirit of mutual exchange of lessons learned

Dutch and Hungarian soldiers familiarized themselves with one another’s equipment and best practices at the CBRN command post set up on the Újdörögd base of the Hungarian Defence Forces Bakony Combat Training Centre. Both the Hungarians and the Dutch introduced themselves to each other by operating a decontamination station. The exchange of lessons learned between the two nations involved the chemical decontamination of motor vehicles and personnel.

Hungarian CBRN personnel on alert

The motor vehicles and the soldiers who had supposedly come into contact with toxic chemical warfare agents (CWA) had to undergo a multi-stage decontamination process. “The chemical decontamination has three phases. At the first station, we remove all contamination which is unrelated to chemical materials. In the second phase, we spray decontaminating solution on them and finally remove the fluid from the surface, together with all contaminating agents", Capt. Péter Moldován, the commander of the Hungarian Defence Forces 93rd ‘Petőfi Sándor’ Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Defence Battalion told us.