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NS New Design Edition May.Indd MAGAZINE FOR HQ JFC BRUNSSUM - MAY 2016 i www.jfcbs.nato.int f www.facebook.com/jfcbs JFC BRUNSSUM HUNGARIAN SNMG1 AND CONTRIBUTES TO NATIONAL DAY SNMCMG1 MIDDLE EAST PARTICIPATE IN JOINT COUNTER-PIRACY WARRIOR 16-1 OFFICIAL VOLVO MILITARY/DIPLOMAT SALES AGENT - FOR ALL EUROPEAN, US, CANADIAN & UK NATO AIRBASE GEILENKIRCHEN, U.S. ARMY GARRISSON SCHINNEN & JFC BRUNSSUM NATIONALITIES SERVING NATO - LEADING TAX-FREE MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC VOLVO SUPPLIER - GUARANTEED LOWEST PRICE - ALL PAYMENTS DIRECT TO THE VOLVO FACTORY IN GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN - HOME SHIPMENT PROGRAM INCLUDED* - US, CANADIAN AND EUROPEAN SPECS SERVICE & MAINTENANCE - BODY AND PAINT SHOP - VOLVO DEALER SINCE 1965 *ONLY U.S. & CANADIAN SPECS 38 ANIMAL HOTEL ABDISSENBOSCH The address where your pets feels at home YEARS afé R d C e un DAYCARE staurant New cat-place where your cat can move freely. Enjoy the real German cuisine with Roomy outside place, playgrounds, central heated. 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Photo: Sgt Sebastien Frechette, PA Techni- cian 3 ABOUT THE COVER 16 HUNGARIAN NATIONAL DAY 5 COMMAND GROUP CORNER 19 US ARMY COMBATIVES GRADUATE 6 US AIR NATIONAL GUARD HELPS KEEP 20 ONE OF US ICELAND AIRSPACE SAFE 22 DID YOU KNOW 9 SNMG1 AND SNMCMG1 PARTICIPATE 22 THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE IN JOINT WARRIOR 16-1 DANCING IN BRUNSSUM! 10 VISITS AND ACTIVITIES 24 MOVIE SCHEDULE 12 JFC BRUNSSUM CONTRIBUTES TO 26 BOOK REVIEW- DARING RAIDS OF WORLD WAR MIDDLE EAST COUNTER-PIRACY TWO: HEROIC LAND, SEA AND AIR ATTACKS 15 EVENTS CALENDAR The NORTHERN STAR is a publication, pu- Heerlen, The Netherlands, telephone: blished with the assistance of ‘t Swarte Schaap, +31 (0)45 571 61 16, Editorial Staff in co-operation with and at no cost to HQ JFC or e-mail: [email protected]. Brunssum. Opinions herein do not necessarily refl ect offi cial NATO or HQ JFC Brunssum Submissions to the Northern Star can be made Col Martin Klein, DEU A policy. 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If you had missed the on-site project, site. Once we have updated our concept, ming and the British are you could not have missed the staggering the intent is to prove the concept through a wearingA shorts; spring has defi nitely amount of work being undertaken opposite major exercise in 2017. arrived. Spring is traditionally re- the main gate. It is obviously not a NATO garded as a time of change and new project but instead is part of a wider Despite this being the season of beginnings; and this is true of many Brunssum town plan which will provide a transformation, there are some things of our activities in the headquarters. more natural and animal friendly path for which never change. Taxes still have to be There is an old English saying that the Rode Beek between Schutterspark and paid, the grass will still need cutting, and ‘time and tide wait for no man’ and, the Brunssummerheide. the personnel of Base Support Group will as we all know, the Warsaw Summit continue to ensure that we are secure, fed will soon be upon us. Whatever the Change is not always physical. In 2015, and watered. It would be easy to take for outcomes, HQ JFC Brunssum will we demonstrated our skills as a deployable granted the security we enjoy on camp, have to respond and adapt to any new joint task force headquarters. However, the especially given the current situation tasks placed upon it and confi gure for size, shape and location of potential future in Europe. The eff ort and commitment the future. confl icts might not necessitate that we deploy shown by the host nation guards should to conduct our business. Notwithstanding not be underestimated. They work for Change is already evident within the our NATO Response Force standby role, our collective benefi t but need our shared Hendrik Camp site. Nobody could have we will now shift towards ensuring that we support to enable them to do their job. failed to notice the construction project maintain and hone our fi ghting skills from Please ensure that you comply with their at the front of the main headquarters our home base at Brunssum, as a ‘static requests and procedures. As we respond to building. The contractor has been moving warfi ghting headquarters’. We should not changes and forge ahead with new concepts, at a frenetic pace and we can already see underestimate the challenges involved. I would ask you to remember all those who the foundations taking shape. This project Maintaining a deployable capability and work to support us and enhance our welfare will see a new wing added to the existing mind-set, whilst adapting our organic through many and varied means. Their building which will contain, and centralize, resources towards home base operations, work is not glamorous but without them we a number of currently disparate functions. will require fl exibility of thought and would not enjoy the security, quality of life For those who have been watching the support. Operating from our home base and working environment we are familiar excavator and truck ballet from their offi ce will also involve a considerable amount of with. windows, you may be interested to know adaptation and enhancement. The Base that, so far, over 300 truckloads of soil and Support Group is already focusing on how NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Dear readers of the Northern Star, This May edition of the Northern Star is Be it the new logo on the cover or the intro- We hope you will appreciate the new look proudly presented to you in a brand new duction of interactive information by using and feel and look forward to your feedback! layout. In close cooperation with PAO QR-codes, the Northern Star is reborn to Brunssum (Colonel Martin Klein, Mr.
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