From February 7 to 9 the annual NATO Training Synchronization Conference will be organised in Vilnius by the NATO Supreme Allied Command Transformation (SACT). Over 200 representatives of NATO and partner countries are expected to take part in the conference.
The Training Synchronization Conference held in Lithuania will integrate four conferences on the allied exercise and warfare training: the NATO Training and Exercise Planning Conference, the NATO Individual Training and Education Conference, the meeting of the Steering Group NATO Training Group (SGNTG) and the NATO Education Forum.
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January 28, German Air Contingent deployed on the Baltic Air Policing mission took part in a football tournament arranged by the Prosecutor General's Office in Mažeikiai in memory of prosecutor Gintautas Sereika killed in 1999. The team of German troops led by the commander of the air contingent Lt Col Werner Theisen was escorted to the sports event by representatives of the Air Base of the Lithuanian Air Force. The annual football competition held to tribute the killed prosecutor G. Sereika travels around Lithuania. The six previous events took place in the birth town of G.Sereikia, Klaipėda, and in Panevėžys, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Pakruojis and Marijampolė.
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From January 26 to 28 Chief of Defence of Lithuania Lt Gen Arvydas Pocius was conducting a formal visit in Poland. Meeting in Krakow Lithuanian CHOD and Gen Mieczysław Cieniuch, CHOD and Chief of General Staff of Poland, addressed current matters of bilateral cooperation: military collaboration in the context of the Baltic Region, NATO Air Policing mission over the Baltic States and Poland's perspectives to continue participation in the mission, perspectives of collaboration between the Lithuanian and Polish Special Operations Forces, and the process of formation of the joint Lithuanian-Polish -Ukrainian Brigade LITPOLUKRBRIG. Chief of Defence of Poland invited the Lithuanian Armed Forces to assign special operations capabilities for the Joint Staff of the Special Forces Operational Component being formed in Poland.
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January 24, commander of the Military Element of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT-14) Col Eligijus Senulis and specialists of the PRT's Civil and Military Cooperation paid a visit to the Sports Department of the province of Ghor and delivered a donation of sports inventory: football and volleyball balls, badminton racquets, chess sets, and other sports equipment. A friendly indoor football match between the PRT personnel and local team so f Chaghcharan was held to mark the delivery.
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January 23, delegation of the Ministry of Defence of Armenia visited the Gen Adolfas Ramanauskas Warfare Training Centre (Vilnius Distr., Nemenčinė). During the visit the Warfare Training Centre (WTC) was presented to the guests. They were also given an opportunity to familiarize with the Joint Conflict and Tactical Simulation (JCATS) installed at the WTC Computer Simulated Exercise Unit. JCATS was installed in the WTC in 2005 on the basis of an agreement signed between Lithuania and the United States of America regarding the application of the Joint Conflict and Tactical Simulation in the Lithuanian Armed Forces.
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The 15th rotation of the Lithuanian-led Chaghcharan Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT-15) attended a Task Group Course at the Juozas Lukša Training Centre of the Lithuanian Land Force and the Gaižiūnai Training Area from January 9 to 27. During the course troops are instructed on the nuances of planning tactical tasks on a mission, drill skills of patrolling, contact, base protection, riot suppression and conducting other tasks typical to the mission in Afghanistan. A complex exercise will test the troops' ability to apply the new knowledge in a bigger formation and conclude the course. Officers of the Public Security Service assist the shift in preparing for the multinational deployment by conducting riot suppression and crowd control drills. Representatives of the Public Security Service will be deployed to the mission region in the province of Ghor as well where they will join the Police Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (POMLT) training local policemen.
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As the Afghan National Security Forces assumed control of security in Chaghcharan, local police requested Lithuanian-led Police Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (POMLT) to assist local police in providing protection of Chaghcharan Airfield. On January 17 members of POMLT-3 presented to fifteen policemen of Chaghcharan the first graduation certificates of airfield protection course. Policemen were briefed on aviation security principles and subtleties of airfield protection planning. During the practical phase of the course the policemen trained organisation and conduct of physical protection and check-up of passengers at Chaghcharan Airfield.
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