The Enlisted Soldier and NCO of the Month

received in the office call  Private Ivan Zidar and First Sergeant  Milan Okmažić, proclaimed the Croatian Armed Forces’ enlisted soldier and NCO of the Month in January 2015.
Private Ivan Zidar is a member of the 2nd Mechanised Battalion (“Pume”) of the Guards Mechanised Brigade of the Croatian Army, and has received several commendations.
Along with being an exemplary serviceman, he was also among the three best attendees of the specialist training and also a successful kickboxing instructor and martial arts training administrator. 
The NCO of the Month – First Sergeant Milan Okmažić, artillery and missile specialty instructor of the Croatian Navy Training Centre, has attended a number of training courses and repeatedly commended for his excellency. He demonstrated skills repairing the problems occured during the specialist training for naval artillery and missile units members at the „Crvena zemlja“ Training Range near Knin.
General Drago Lovrić emphasised that the monthly enlisted soldier and NCO titles were assigned based on the achievement in training. The training, said General Lovrić, was the foundation of the Croatian Armed Forces and had to be mission-oriented, challenging yet safe, serving to build the Croatian soldier and the military as a whole. “The servicemen holding the title of the enlisted soldier and NCOs of the month are the examples to be followed by the rest of the members of the Croatian Armed Forces”.