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Soldiers from the 3rd Platoon 1st Infantry Company of the Montenegrin Armed Forces conduct cold weather training and tactical positioning in the mountains of Folldal, Norway on November 2, 2018 as part of Exercise TRIDENT JUNCTURE 2018. The training is part of a larger simulated battlefield exercise with multiple nations attacking and defending territories throughout the Oppdal region of
Norway.
Interview provided by Lieutenant Nikola Popovič, Commander of the 3rd Platoon 1st Infantry Company of the Montenegrin Armed Forces. Popovic: “Because we are a new NATO member, a new ally, we are here to prepare ourselves for winter conditions because this is an exercise in extreme
winter conditions. To show we are trustworthy, now allies, and we are here to support our NATO members.”
Video by Sgt. Marc-Andre Gaudreault and MC2 Brett Dodge
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LS; MNE Soldier reaching into truck beginning to put on snow camouflage
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MS; MNE soldier putting on snow camouflage
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MS; MNE soldier putting on vest
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CU; MNE soldier putting on mask, headgear
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CU; tire chains on truck
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CU to MS; rack focus from vehicle plate to MNE soldier finishing putting gear on
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CU; MNE soldier putting white gloves on for snow camouflage
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CU; exhaust pipe of running truck
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LS; MNE soldiers walk down snow-covered hill in line formation
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CU; MNE soldiers boots through snow
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LS; MNE soldiers walking through snow, shot through tree in foreground
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MS; MNE soldiers walk under roped off area
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LS to PAN; MNE soldiers prepping for tactical positioning
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MS; MNE soldier tactical position in snow, weapon drawn
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CU; MNE soldier tactical position in snow, weapon drawn
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CU; MNE soldier hand gripping weapon
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CU to Rack Focus; MNE soldier tactical position in snow, weapon drawn
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LS to PAN; MNE soldiers moving through snow, lying down
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LS; MNE soldier in prone position lying in snow, weapon drawn
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LS; Two MNE soldier in snow
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MS; MNE soldier tactical position in snow, weapon drawn
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CU; barrel of rifle
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CU; MNE soldier in snow, holding tactical position
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INTERVIEW WITH Lt. Nikola Popovič begins
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MS; Popovičc introduces himself.
“I am Lieutenant Nikola Popovič commander of the 3rd Platoon 1st Infantry Company from Montenegro.”
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MS; Popovič responds to question: What are you and your team doing here for Trident Juncture?
“Because we are a new NATO member, a new ally, we are here to prepare ourselves for winter conditions because this is an exercise in extreme winter conditions. To show we are trustworthy, now allies, and we are here to support our NATO members.”
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MS; Popovič responds to question: How has the exercise been so far, how are conditions?
“Conditions are well. As you can see there is much snow and its temperature on the very low degrees. So we are preparing ourselves for defending and attacking from town to town and trying to cooperate with new infantries, to cooperate with new countries in NATO.”
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MS; Popovič responds to question: What have you and your team learned so far working with other nations?
“Its quite a bit different between our tactics and our movements, our equipment. So we are trying to make better conditions to work like when to use the same equipment, to use the same tactics for finishing the job.”
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MS; Popovič responds to question: What kind of knowledge, tactics or experience does MNE bring to the table/exercise?
“We can show that we are, that we have good possibilities to work and to finish our job; like in snow, in winter tactics, in mountaineering, etc.”
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MS; Popovič responds to question: What has been the biggest surprise so far?
“The biggest surprise was temperature of course, but we are working on it.”
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MS; Popovič responds to question: Now that MNE is a full-fledged NATO ally, what, if anything, has changed about your military operations?
“Because we are new allies, we have more routes to help each other country that we are sent to. We are in Afghanistan and trying to protect the peace over there. After that we will be in Latvia and sent where we need, where NATO needs us.”
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MS; Popovic responds to question: What are you looking forward to most about being a part of NATO missions?
“Expect the most is better interoperability, so we are expecting that we will focus on teamwork from country to country and more missions to protect and do what is our job.”
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| Date Taken: | 11.02.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 11.04.2018 10:06 |
| Category: | B-Roll |
| Video ID: | 637450 |
| VIRIN: | 181102-N-GP524-595 |
| Filename: | DOD_106182442 |
| Length: | 00:04:22 |
| Location: | NO |
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