The Bétera Servicepersons Complete their Preparation for Afghanistan in Norway

The 80 members of Headquarters NATO Rapid Deployable Corps-Spain who next year will be posted to the International Security Assistance Force Land Component Command in Afghanistan have finalised a rehearsal exercise for the mission, carried out in Norway from 3rd to 15th December, their specific training.

The site chosen for its undertaking was Joint Warfare Centre, situated in Stavanger (Norway), where the Headquarters NATO Rapid Deployable Corps-Spain service personnel -among whom, in addition to Spaniards, were Germans, Americans, French, Greeks, Italians, Romanians and Portuguese – joined Euro corps personnel who will contribute their capabilities to this Joint Command.

The staff will be completed in Kabul with personnel from the Land Component Command and the US 5th Corps, which will also deploy at the International Security Assistance Force Headquarters.

Arial view of the Joint Warfare Centre (Norway) (Photo:High Readiness Land Headquarters)

The nearly 400 participants received lectures on the procedures, organization and capabilities of the Headquarters, and the situation and characteristics of the theatre of operations; then they carried out a specific training phase by functional area, and lastly, they rehearsed the simultaneous operation of the International Security Assistance Force Headquarters and the Joint Command.

To this end, they had the collaboration of almost 300 instructors and experts from the Joint Warfare Centre itself and from personnel deployed at present or recently to these posts, who collaborated in their training. This effort was essential to enable conveying to the participants a real and up-to-date idea of how work is carried out at both Headquarters.