After returning from Camp Cabra, the company’s activities are currently focused on convoy, protective and patrol duties—including controlling the movement of people and vehicles in its area of operations, conducting routine patrols in border municipalities, and carrying out reconnaissance tasks. The maneuver company of the 28th rotation of the Polish Military Contingent KFOR Kosovo carries out some of its patrol tasks jointly with soldiers of the Serbian army and Kosovar police officers.
On June 30 and July 2, 2013, soldiers of the maneuver company conducted patrols with soldiers of the Serbian army along the Serbian-Kosovar border. Joint patrols build mutual trust and respect. The mountainous border regions of Serbia and Kosovo are a major challenge for drivers, while also confirming their considerable skill in operating motor vehicles in mountainous terrain.
In addition, the maneuver company’s current tasks include operating as part of the rapid reaction forces (Quick Reaction Force – QRF).
Between missions, company soldiers take part in training conducted by American instructors, during which they improve, among other things, procedures and techniques for maintaining crowd control (CRC – in English, Crowd and Riot Control) in cooperation with maneuver platoons from other countries, including a German platoon equipped with water cannons.
Improving marksmanship skills using the base’s infrastructure helps maintain proficiency and continuous readiness to act.
The intensity of training conducted mainly by instructors from the American army, combined with the execution of ongoing mandate tasks, makes time on the mission pass very quickly for everyone.
The Polish Military Contingent KFOR in Kosovo is carrying out a stabilization mission and forms part of the Multinational Battle Group – East. As part of its operational activities, the Polish contingent performs tasks involving monitoring compliance with international agreements and treaties in order to create conditions for safe living and the normalization of the situation in its area of responsibility.
The core of the new, 28th rotation of the Polish Military Contingent in Kosovo consists of soldiers from the 23rd Silesian Artillery Regiment in Bolesławiec—the unit responsible for forming and preparing the contingent—as well as the Special Branch of the Military Police from Mińsk Mazowiecki and the 1st Storage Battalion from Olsztyn, belonging to the 1st Logistics Brigade.
(information: Second Lieutenant Jacek Wójcik, deputy commander of the maneuver company/ii)