Excellent Professional Knowledge is Important

Lt.-Col. Béla Kerekes, the commander of the contingent is lucky because while he shares his professional experience with his Afghan colleague, there are three men working directly under him in their special fields. Based on his mission-related experience, Capt. L. P. precisely knows that security is the most important thing in the area of operations. He is the only one to receive information that is indispensable for organizing and directing work under safe conditions. He spends most of his time with analyzing the reports from the scouts and liaison officers and the available data, and every time the mentors are to set out to execute their tasks, he regularly updates them on the foreseeable dangers and the ISAF restrictions on the route of movement. He has the further duty of reporting for the contingent in both international and Hungarian respects. He spares no time and effort in working out the SOPs for different dangerous situations, and is active in organizing the courses for teaching them. He anxiously waits for everyone to return from the daily task execution. “I would like to see everybody returning home safe and sound! If that succeeds, my work was not in vain", the captain said.

SFC L. V. has extensive mission-related experience too. The present one is certainly his most complex job so far in the area of operations. As a logistic (property book) NCO, he is responsible for the whole material supplies of the contingent. He keeps track of the mentors’ statement of requirements and is tasked with planning and organizing the material supply of the contingent in close cooperation with the relevant units of the National Support Element that is responsible for the replenishment of the HDF Logistic Mentor Team. He is to request and arrange for the accommodation and catering of arriving visitors and repair the equipment after the frequent breakdowns, a task that requires no special effort of him. “The good logistic NCO is invisible, you can only perceive his absence", the sergeant first class told us with a smile.

(HDF CSS School Hungarian Logistic Mentor Team-4)