Category: Armed Forces

Marine Special Forces Command - back from the desert!

Marine Special Forces Command - back from the desert!

Gepostet von | 28 Mar 2023 | , , , , | 1

Successful cooperation - roll call for returnees for Gazelle training mission On Monday, 3 April 2023 at 1 p.m., a roll call will be held as a symbolic act for the end of the Joint Special Operations Task Force (JSOTF) Gazelle. This was part of the European Union Training Mission (EUTM) Mali and will take place with invited guests from politics and the military at the Eckernförde naval base. This special recognition goes not only to the men and women of the Naval Special Forces Command (KSM), but also to all the Bundeswehr units involved, who worked together successfully to make this mission a success. Initially, it was a training mission, which became...

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175 years of German navies - 175th foreign training voyage of the "Gorch Fock"

175 years of German navies - 175th foreign training voyage of the "Gorch Fock"

Gepostet von | 16 Mar 2023 | , , | 0

From a press release by the Naval Command: On Monday, 20 March 2023 at 10 a.m., the German Navy's sail training ship, the "Gorch Fock", will leave the city of Kiel after a long winter break for its 175th training voyage abroad and will therefore not be in its home port for the 175th anniversary of the founding of the German Navy. Under the command of Captain Andreas-Peter Graf von Kielmansegg (56), the voyage will initially head south to Spain and Portugal in the anniversary year. The return journey will take the ship and crew back to Kiel via Ireland. A good 250 naval officer candidates from the 2022 crew will take part in three voyages as part of their "Seamen's Training Programme".

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EU with revised maritime security strategy

EU with revised maritime security strategy

Gepostet von | 14 Mar 2023 | , , , | 0

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Defence Minister Pistorius at the navy

Defence Minister Pistorius at the navy

Gepostet von | 28 Feb 2023 | , , , | 0

From a Bundeswehr press release On 21 February, the German Navy presented its specific capabilities in the maritime environment to the new Federal Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius in Eckernförde. The navy in particular has to consider four dimensions in its operational areas: surface, underwater, air and land. Together with the inspector of the navy, Vice Admiral Jan Christian Kaack, Pistorius began his first visit to the navy with a tour of the submarine training centre of the 1st submarine squadron. Its submarines are among the most modern in the world. In order to be able to make optimum use of the high-tech equipment, their crew members are trained and further educated here. Dimensions on land and at sea: ships need a...

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Change of command in the 4th frigate squadron

Change of command in the 4th frigate squadron

Gepostet von | 17 Jan 2023 | , , | 0

Flotilla Admiral Axel Schulz will hand over command of the 4th Frigate Squadron from Captain Dirk Jacobus to the new commander of the squadron, Captain Matthias Schmitt, on Thursday, 19 January. The handover ceremony will take place on the frigate "Sachsen-Anhalt" at the Heppenser Groden naval base in Wilhelmshaven. Captain Jacobus was in command of the 4th frigate squadron for five and a half years. The special thing about his time in command was that he took all four F125 class frigates, the "Baden-Württemberg" class, into service and also decommissioned the last three F122 class frigates - the...

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