The Ones Who Did Not Have a Rest on Their Paid Leave

Szöveg: S. B. | 2012. január 5. 8:36

Lt. Sándor Babos and SFC György Kalányos serve with the International Training Department of the HDF NCO Academy, being on the staff of the Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IED) training group which was accredited by NATO in April 2011. They are going to do their tours of duty until March 2012 at the ISAF Regional Command-North (ISAF RC-N) in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan in C-IED training instructor officer/NCO positions.

During their recent paid leave in Hungary, the two trainers took the opportunity to share the
new experiences, so they held a refresher practice for the training staff which is to relieve
them and for the enlisted men who are doing their basic training at the NCO Academy. The
training session was attended by Col. Zsolt Mikusi, the Acting Commandant of the HDF NCO
Academy.

This kind of refresher practice is not new to the staff of the HDF NCO Academy. In the field
of C-IED, it is especially important that the training staff can receive fresh intelligence and
learn about the enemy’s new tactics, techniques and procedures. For this reason, the staff
of the department takes every opportunity to integrate these pieces of information into the
training programs.

The trainers filling individual positions in Afghanistan have already done the first half of
their tour of duty abroad. As a result of their activity, so far some 500 troops serving with the
ISAF RC-N and the subordinate units have undergone the Hungarian-led training. Among
others, they trained the personnel of the Hungarian-led OMLT-7 rotation, the Force Protection
unit of the Hungarian National Support Element (NSE) and the units of the PRT and OMLT
stationed in Kunduz and Meymaneh.

The two positions will not remain unfilled after Lt. Babos and S/Sgt. Kalányos will have
returned home: the HDF NCO Academy International Training Department continues to send
soldiers from its staff to deploy in Afghanistan as C-IED trainers.