MOD Republic of Croatia

Members of the 19^th HRVCON in the ISAF operation celebrated the biggest Christian holiday of Easter by services and social events in the camps in which they reside.

From 12 March to 6 April 2012, a total of four courses for drivers of high-mobility multi-role M1151 HMMWV vehicle  were conducted in the Centre for Logistics Training and Doctrine in Pozega. A total of 63 students, members of the Armed Forces have passed through four weeks training.

The fifth anniversary of establishing of the Guards Motorized Brigade was celebrated in Knin today, April 6.

Students who are studying for the military pilots have performed the first independent flight on a plane Zlin 242 L today, April 5, in 93^rd Aircraft Squadron of the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence in Zemunik Barracks.

Defence Minister Ante Kotromanovic, U.S. Senator of Croatian origin Mark Begich, and U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, James B. Foley visited today, Wednesday, 4 April 2012,  "Eugen Kvaternik" military training facility near Slunj, with the ongoing "SPREMNOST-12" military exercise.

CAF MI-8 MTV helicopter from the composition of the transport helicopter squadron (ETH) of the 93rd Air Force Base urgently transported on 4 April 2012 two patients with heart problems from Dubrovnik.

U.S. Ship "HSV Swift," which is in visit to the Croatian Navy, in  the Lora port in Split, was visited on April 4 by Assistant Minister of Defence Dragan Lozančić, U.S. Ambassador to Croatia James B. Foley, U.S. Senator Mark Begich from Alaska Federal State and Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ante Urlić with his closest associates.

Organized by the Atlantic Council Croatia in cooperation with the Croatian Ministry of Defence and NATO Department for Public Diplomacy, a scientific conference "The three years of Croatia in NATO" was held today, April 3, at the Croatian Military Academy "Petar Zrinski" in Zagreb.

Defence Minister Ante Kotromanović and Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Drago Lovrić met today, 3 April 2012, at the Croatian Military Academy, with members of the military diplomatic corps, military attaches accredited in the Republic of Croatia, and presented the main guidelines of work and major projects of the Ministry of Defence in the near future.