They Will Train Snipers

“Currently we have eight trainees but only six of them will be allowed to leave for Mali.
The soldiers we have selected to participate in this mission have many-years time in
service and mission experience. Seven of them serve with the 24th “Bornemissza Gergely"
Reconnaissance Battalion and one with the 3rd infantry battalion", Maj. Attila Enyedi, the
officer in charge of the training for the team told us.

The personnel nominated to travel to the West African country have already undergone the
compulsory physical-psychological and medical aptitude tests, and received the necessary
vaccination as well. The team consists of one officer, three NCOs and two enlisted men. All
team members speak French and/or English, and have been given special language training
in French over the last few weeks. They received training in battlefield knowledge and
medical skills at the HDF Peace Support Training Center of Szolnok, and they also had to
learn the legal basics of peace support operations as well as the components of civil-military
cooperation (CIMIC). Additionally, they participated in psychological training, engineering
training and target practices.

The training is currently going on at the Kossuth barracks in Debrecen and at the “Vay
Ádám" Training Base in Hajdúhadház, where training methodology is the focus of the
ballistics/weapon training sessions and target practices, Maj. Attila Enyedi told us. He added
that the six soldiers of the Bocskai brigade would serve for six months with the European
Union training mission in Mali as trainers of a sniper team in a French-led task force.