Integrated Training and Live Fire at the Peak of Exercise Brilliant Jump 2016

Commander Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum, General Salvatore Farina, welcomed high-ranking visitors from the host nation, troop contributing nations and the NATO Command Structure.  Amongst others, attending VIPs include: General Mieczysaw Gocul (Polish Chief of Defense); Major General Jeronim Bazo (Chief of General Staff Albania); Admiral Teodoro Esteban Lopes Calderon (Commander Spanish Joint Operations Command); and Admiral Manfred Nielson (Deputy Commander Supreme Allied Command Transformation).

Upon arrival at the Zagan Military Training Area, Distinguished Visitors and accompanying Press Corps attended a joint live firing demonstration.  In a short speech at this location an impressed General Farina said: “NATO is an Alliance, as evidenced by the eclectic nature of participation in this exercise.  For example, the core of the VJTF is the Spanish Brigade ‘Galicia’.  But Albania, Poland and the United Kingdom have contributed troops in keeping with the tenets of an enhanced NRF, which is a multi-national force by definition.  And finally our hosts, Poland, have played a fundamental role that has helped make this serial a success.”

Brilliant Jump 2016 will complete Friday the 27th of May.

L. J. De Rothschild

Senior Editor