Takeover of Position of Director of International EOD Centre of Excellence
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- Date: 30.01.2014
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The Commander of the Engineering Battalion Sereď Lieutenant Colonel Ľubomír Mrváň was promoted by the Chief of the General Staff of the AF SR Lieutenant Colonel Peter Vojtek to the rank of Colonel and was appointed as the new Director. Lt.Gen. Vojtek appreciated the importance of the Centre and the work done by Colonel Jaroslav Bielený, the former Director of CoE. He emphasized that Col. Bielený significantly contributed to the completion of the process of establishment of the Centre and to its credit home and abroad. Since its accreditation in April 2011, the members of the International EOD CoE Trenčín actively participated in specialized preparation and training of the EOD staff officers and other EOD specialists from NATO and other countries, to include Iraq.
The role of EOD CoE, which is the only NATO institute on the territory of Slovakia, is, among other things, to provide support to the NATO transformation and operational effort in the field of EOD and to provide professional knowledge and skills as well as support and assistance at developing tactics, methodology and procedures of explosive ordnance disposal.
They specialize at training of specialists from the Alliance and from Partner countries in the field of unexploded ordnance disposal and explosive systems disposal. Since the certification of the Centre, nearly four hundred specialists from 24 NATO and Partner countries undertook training in the Centre. Currently, besides the members of the Slovak Armed Forces, also their counterparts from Poland, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic operate in the Centre.
The role of EOD CoE, which is the only NATO institute on the territory of Slovakia, is, among other things, to provide support to the NATO transformation and operational effort in the field of EOD and to provide professional knowledge and skills as well as support and assistance at developing tactics, methodology and procedures of explosive ordnance disposal.
They specialize at training of specialists from the Alliance and from Partner countries in the field of unexploded ordnance disposal and explosive systems disposal. Since the certification of the Centre, nearly four hundred specialists from 24 NATO and Partner countries undertook training in the Centre. Currently, besides the members of the Slovak Armed Forces, also their counterparts from Poland, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic operate in the Centre.
