The Exercise Director was Lt. Col. Tomislav Grgurovi\u0107, Head of the S3 Department of the Motorised Guard Brigade Command. The Exercise participants include members of the Croatian Army and members of the Army of Montenegro, and it was planned and conducted by as many as 300 servicemen. The evaluation was scheduled through two phases (the \u201cin barracks\u201d, and \u201cin the field\u201d evaluation), and was performed by the team of the Croatian Support Command, by the CREVAL (Combat Readiness Evaluation) system.
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\u201eThe Exercise serves to determine whether the various components of the HRVCON are deployment-ready. If this phase detects some deficiencies, enough time remains to remedy them. The HRVCONs have all attained high evaluation scores so far, with some minor shortcomings that are quite normal, and it is the evaluators’ task to help remove them\u201c, stated the HRVCON Commander, Col. Jozo Matkovi\u0107 during the Exercise. <\/p>\n
\u201eThe evaluation is conducted by the expert officers who have served the terms at all the positions considered, and their first-hand advice and recommendations for service in ISAF are highly valuable\u201c, emphasized Lt. Col. Grgurovi\u0107. The Exercise scenario included a series of \u201eincidents\u201c reflecting the reality of Afghanistan and the possible situations the soldiers might find themselves in, such as suicide bomber attacks,\u00a0 attacks against patrols, or the use of chemical weapons. The participants, including the Croatian Army members and the members of the Army of Montenegro) dealt with the incidents\u00a0 under constant monitoring by the evaluation team.
The pre-deployment training has been ongoing for some months already, and the Exercise \u201cHrvatski ponos 13\/2\u201c finalised it.<\/p>\n[nggallery id=1197]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The second exercise of the “Hrvatski ponos 13” (Croatian Pride) cycle, entailing the evaluation of combat readiness of the members of the 22nd HRVCON to be deployed to ISAF in September 2013 was conducted at the “Eugen Kvaternik” Army Training Range near Slunj, from 5-13 July 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n