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The Contractual Party never stops!

25.3.2014

The National Support Element of the 8th ACR TASK FORCE in Kabul ensures comprehensive support to all Czech units deployed in Afghanistan. This so-called Contractual Party plays an important role in providing units with all the necessary requirements under local conditions. Although much of the required material can be shipped and delivered from home, immediate requests for goods and services may mean urgent acquisition locally.

15th anniversary of the Czech Republic's accession to NATO

19.3.2014

"Defence matters" said the Minister of Defence, Martin Stropnicky, speaking at the 15th anniversary conference of the Czech Republic‘s accession to NATO, which was held at Prague Castle on 12th March. He went on to say, "After 15 years of the Czech Republic’s membership in NATO, our security is still not commonplace".

Rotation of units for Parwan and Mali

12.3.2014

Fresh replacement units for deployment in Afghanistan and Africa are ready to assume their operational tasks this March. Soldiers of the 2nd Guard Company will replace the 1st GC at the Bagram Air Field in the Afghan Province of Parwan, a NATO-led ISAF operation, while soldiers of the 3rd Czech unit at the EU Training Mission in Mali will take over from the previous 2nd unit.

Czech Armed Forces involved in Exercise BLACKOUT 2014

6.3.2014

An extremely powerful storm destroys key transformers and a massive blackout hits Prague and parts of the Central Bohemian Region last week. Fortunately, this was just a military exercise.

Search and Rescue: training for excellence

25.2.2014

A two-day joint military and civilian rescue exercise conducted the scenario of saving lives of skiers and evacuation from a blocked ski chairlift in the Sumava Mountains last week.