Safety Fuel Again
Szöveg: Capt. Imre Darabos | 2014. május 29. 9:00The first training session during the preparation for fielding and operating a Bulk Fuel Installation (BFI) on the joint Hungarian–German exercise “Safety Fuel – 2014 “ – which is to start at the end of June – was held between May 12 and 20 at the Hetényegyháza base command of the HDF Materiel Supply Depot Base.
Training for exercise Safety Fuel – 2014, to be conducted in Germany
At the invitation of Brig.-Gen. István Baráth, the commander of the HDF Logistic Centre, the deputy commander of the Bundeswehr logistic command (Logistikkommando der Bundeswehr) had paid a visit to Hungary in March. At their meeting, the two delegations had discussed issues of cooperation in military logistic and the Exercise Safety Fuel – 2014, which is to be held between June 30 and July 11 on the Putlos base of the Bundeswehr.
At Hetényegyháza, the main objective in the first phase of training for the exercise was to have the participants brush up their knowledge and let them practice fielding, operating, disassembling and maintaining a BFI – using all the skills they have acquired on similar exercises over the last two years.
Hungarian–German Bulk Fuel Installation (BFI) fielding and operating exercise at the base command of the HDF Materiel Supply Depot Center, Hetényegyháza
The training was supervised by the staff the HDF Materiel Supply Depot Base, Hungarian military personnel trained and certified by the Bundeswehr in 2012. The training audience included bulk fuel specialist soldiers from the HDF 5th “István Bocskai" Infantry Brigade, the HDF 59th “Dezső Szentgyörgyi" Air Base, the HDF 37th “Ferenc Rákóczi II" Engineer Regiment, the HDF 64th “József Boconádi Szabó" Logistic Regiment and the HDF 54th Veszprém Radar Regiment.
In the second phase of the preparation – between June 1 and 27 – three Hungarian NCOs will participate in a BFI manager training course which is to be held at the Putlos Specialist Engineers Training and Exercise Center of the Bundeswehr Logistics School in Germany.
The training objective was to develop the participants’ skills, using lessons learned on previous exercises
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