British JCLC Course by BMATT culminates at Vihorlat
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The 4-week Junior Commanders Leadership Course (JCLC), delivered by instructors of the British Military Advisory Training Team (BMATT) based at the Military Academy in Vyškov (Czech Republic), culminated on Kamenica nad Cirochou Training Area during the first week of July 2019. The course was attended by members of the Mechanised Brigade Prešov.
JCLC Course Leader Cpt Anthony Kinsella (GBR A) expressed his satisfaction with the Slovak soldiers’approach to the course. “They all put in a lot of effort to succeed and solve uneasy tasks we had prepared for them. Especially the end of the course in the demanding mountainous terrain of Kamenica nad Cirochou Training Area gave them a tough time,” said the British commander, who has a lot of practical experience from his deployment to Afghanistan, and so have his equally experienced instructors from Iraq.
Company Sergeant Major of CSS Company, Mechanised Battalion Michalovce, MSgt Martin Nič was in charge of the course on the Slovak side. MSgt Nič summarised the main points of the course: “The key theme of the course was leadership and tactics for small-sized units. We started with theory and then moved on to field training on Trebišov Garrison’s training ground at Ozorovce. The training culminated with two deployments to Kamenica nad Cirochou Training Area. The first one lasted for two days and the final one for four days. During the deployments, they carried out a variety of tasks that unit commanders have to handle while in defence or on attack. They operated in the forest on the ridge of the Vihorlat Mountains. The British instructors built the entire course around practice. Train as you fight… Train hard and do everything to survive in combat.”
SSgt Pavol Hudák and SSgt Ján Medvec, of the Mechanised Battalion Michalovce, and Lt Tomáš Fogaš, of the Combined Mechanised Battalion Trebišov, were named Best Graduates of the Course.
Instructors of the British Military Advisory Training Team (BMATT) have trained thousands of members of the Army of the Czech Republic and other NATO and Partner troops since they began to work at Vyškov in 2000. Cpt Anthony Kinsella said they had recently led courses in Slovakia, Croatia, Montenegro, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, and Uzbekistan.
JCLC Course Leader Cpt Anthony Kinsella (GBR A) expressed his satisfaction with the Slovak soldiers’approach to the course. “They all put in a lot of effort to succeed and solve uneasy tasks we had prepared for them. Especially the end of the course in the demanding mountainous terrain of Kamenica nad Cirochou Training Area gave them a tough time,” said the British commander, who has a lot of practical experience from his deployment to Afghanistan, and so have his equally experienced instructors from Iraq.
Company Sergeant Major of CSS Company, Mechanised Battalion Michalovce, MSgt Martin Nič was in charge of the course on the Slovak side. MSgt Nič summarised the main points of the course: “The key theme of the course was leadership and tactics for small-sized units. We started with theory and then moved on to field training on Trebišov Garrison’s training ground at Ozorovce. The training culminated with two deployments to Kamenica nad Cirochou Training Area. The first one lasted for two days and the final one for four days. During the deployments, they carried out a variety of tasks that unit commanders have to handle while in defence or on attack. They operated in the forest on the ridge of the Vihorlat Mountains. The British instructors built the entire course around practice. Train as you fight… Train hard and do everything to survive in combat.”
SSgt Pavol Hudák and SSgt Ján Medvec, of the Mechanised Battalion Michalovce, and Lt Tomáš Fogaš, of the Combined Mechanised Battalion Trebišov, were named Best Graduates of the Course.
Instructors of the British Military Advisory Training Team (BMATT) have trained thousands of members of the Army of the Czech Republic and other NATO and Partner troops since they began to work at Vyškov in 2000. Cpt Anthony Kinsella said they had recently led courses in Slovakia, Croatia, Montenegro, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, and Uzbekistan.
