NATO’s new high readiness ‘spearhead’ force is being deployed for the first time, as Exercise NOBLE JUMP gets underway with forces converging in Zagan, Poland for simulated combat. Units assigned to the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) were given orders to deploy on Tuesday 9 June 2015, and will exercise until 19 June. Over 2,100 troops from nine NATO nations are participating in the exercise, which continues the process of testing and refining the force.
This mechanized infantry unity from the Norwegian Army´s Telemark Battalion engaged in live fire exercises in Zagan, Poland.
For further information on the exercise, please refer to: http://aco.nato.int/nato-spearhead-force-deploys-for-first-time--exercise-noble-jump-underway.aspx
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00:00-00:49 SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) MAJOR DAVID SEPPOLA, Company commander. Telemark Battalion. Norway Army.
“Today we are conducting a live fire exercise. We have practiced combined arms maneuvers including tactical tasks as command arms breaching and clearing with infantry, we have been supported by Belgium artillery battery and also supported by our own cavalry troop with the UAV and also armored reconnaissance and snipers.
The challenges we faced during the exercise Noble Jump, is practicing in a new terrain, this terrain we don´t know and it´s very different from the Norwegian nature and terrain in there, it´s good for us to meet these challenges in a whole another country, it´s just different from what we are use to.”
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