Originally Posted by kazulu

The Croatian soldier is wearing a beret with an odd color, which unit does he belong too? Nice pictures

It is 2. Mechanized Battalion 'Cougars', Armored Mechanized Guard Brigade.

In Afghanistan

As AMV vehicles came into active use, Soldiers of the 1st Company of the 1st Battalion, Guard Motorised Brigade have trained whit U.S. mobile training team to learn tactics, techniques and procedures from American Stryker battalion.

International military exercise of the Multinational Military Police Battalion (NATO MNMPBAT) SHARP LYNX 12, which was held in Polish Wedrzyn from 10 September, ended on Friday, 21 September 2012 with distinguished visitor's program.


For the lined up members of the military police of the Croatian, Polish, Slovak and Czech armed forces - which together constitute MNMPBAT - the most important event of the day, but also in the whole military exercise was MNMPBAT certification by NATO CREVAL evaluators. The commanders of the military police, Colonel Tihomir Zebec (Croatia), Major General Miroslaw Rozmus (Poland), Colonel Milan Schulc (Czech Republic) and Colonel Jaroslav Hamar (Slovakia), jointly signed "Declaration of Achievement of Full Operational Capability Status". By this MNMPBAT, after years of dedicated work and close collaboration of many members of the military police of all four nations, was given "full operational capability status," thus making a big step towards its next goal - joining NATO Multinational Corps Northeast (MNC NE NATO).

Besides NATO MNC NE Commander, General Rainer Korff, the final day of SHARP LYNX 12 was also attended by Rear Admiral (LH) Tihomir Erceg, Major General Pavel Macko, Major General Ildefonso Hernandez Gomez, Colonel Brian Bisacre, Major General Miroslaw Rozanski, Brigadier General Franciszek Kochanowski and numerous other representatives of NATO and military officials from many countries. In his speech during the closing ceremony, NATO MNC NE Commander, General Rainer Korff thanked all the participants of the SHARP LYNX 12 international military exercise for their effort and enthusiasm shown, and emphasizing the importance of exercise and the entire NATO MNMPBAT multinational project, he said, "We come from different countries, we have different names and speak different languages, but our goal is the same - we want to contribute to freedom and democracy". Rear Admiral Tihomir Erceg in his address welcomed the progress achieved and MNMPBAT results and announced that Croatia would continue to support this project and to participate in it.

During the last day of the SHARP LYNX 12 international military exercise, MNMPBAT readiness demonstration was held. Therefore, the members of the Croatian, Polish, Czech and Slovakia military police showed how capable they have been to effectively solve complex military police tasks in joined and coordinated manner.