Training Command – Military Academy

A Final Planning Conference (FPC) concerning an anti-aircraft units training of the Hungarian Armed Forces within the AF CR training facilities took place at Training Command – Military Academy (TC – MA) from 10^th to 11^th February 2010. The SHORAD 2010 Training will be held on 26-30 April 2010 at MTEA Hradiště where a similar training took place in 2009 and was attended by the Chief of GS of the Hungarian Armed Forces.

The objective of the FPC was to revise a final draft of the Technical Agreement (TA) and its single annexes and sign it.

After the reception of the Hungarian delegation led by Lt-Col Tamás Huber from the Joint Forces Command of the Hungarian Armed Forces, Josef Houžvic, Chief of the Planning and Development Department of the Education Training Base, Institute of Development TC – MA Vyškov, held an opening speech of the conference. Afterwards Lt-Col Ferenc Kovács, Deputy Commander of the 12th Anti-Aircraft Battalion Arrabona, acquainted all the participants with the agenda of the training and specified the number of personnel and equipment. Amendments and annexes of the TA concerning conditions of the training provided by the AF CR were reviewed in the morning. During the afternoon legal advisors of the both counterparts reviewed the content of the TA and its revised annexes as well as the language and formal layout. After the overall check the TA was ready for signing.

The TA was signed at TC – MA on 11^th February 2010. Attended by the participants in the conference, it was signed on behalf of the Czech Republic by Colonel GS Jaromír Zůna, TC – MA Commander, and for Hungary it was BG László Varga, Commander of the 12^th Anti-Aircraft Battalion who signed the agreement.

In conclusion BG László Varga thanked Colonel GS Jaromír Zůna for an existing excellent co-operation between TC – MA and its subordinated units and for providing the training of the anti-aircraft units of the Hungarian Armed Forces. He expressed his wish for further co-operation at organizing trainings in the future.

The scale of the training itself is not the biggest one, but it represents a basis for the permanent co-operation between the AF CR and the Hungarian Armed Forces during their anti-aircraft units` training.

Text: MAJ Milan Meloš, Institute of Development TC – MA