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KFOR CHRONICLE Thethe Mothermother Aa Homage for the All KFOR Soldiers Who Lost Their KFOR CHRONICLE TheThe MotherMother aa Homage for the all KFOR soldiers who lost their This homage to the Kosovo Force was written by Mr. Mexhid Havolli, a member of the Film City Headquarters Support Group team. Mr. Havolli supports KFOR through his efforts in the HSG Supply Warehouse. Photos by Armend Aqifi KFOR CHRONICLE The KFOR Chronicle is How to contact Contributing nations in produced by HQ KFOR. KFOR Chronicle: KFOR: Commander KFOR: It is fully funded by KFOR, Phone: MNB (E) LTG Giuseppe Valotto HQ KFOR authorized and published for Int: +389 268 2897 Canada Leading Nation: Italian Army KFOR forces Kos.:(038) 503 603 2897 Estonia United States of in the area of responsibility. KPN: 2897, 2402 Hungary America Chief Public The contents are not necessari- FAX: 2373 Netherlands Contributing Information KFOR: ly the official views of, E-mail: Norway Nations: Portugal COL Pio Sabetta or endorsed by, the coalition [email protected] Armenia United Kingdom Greece governments’ defence Internet: Italian Army MNB (C) Lithuania departments. www.nato.int/kfor Leading Poland Chief Internal The KFOR Chronicle is Nation: Ukraine Information KFOR & printed by KOSOVA SOT Czech Republic Editor in Chief: Tel: 038 548 402 Contributing MNB (SW) Nations: Leading Nation: MAJ Dr. Jo SCHÖPF Finland Italy Austrian Army The KFOR Chronicle Ireland Contributing [email protected] welcomes contributions Latvia Nations: from its readers, such as Slovakia Argentina Sweden Journalist letters, articles, photos or Austria story ideas. MNB (NE) Azerbaijan 1st LT Maksym Nedria Leading Nation: Copy should be submitted Bulgaria Ukrainian Army France Georgia to KFOR Chronicle, Cover photo by Contributing Germany HQ KFOR, Pristina on a 3.5- Nations: Photographer Mr. Armend Aqifi Hungary inch floppy disk, Zip disk or e- Belgium Mr. Armend Aqifi Denmark Romania mail address below. Thank you for your support Greece Slovenia Layout Photos can be sent Tech. Sgt. Claudette Latvia Spain digitally or high resolution Luxembourg Switzerland Kosova Sot Hutchinson, US AF Morocco hard copy. Turkey 2 Nov. 30, 2005 www.nato.int/kfor KFOR CHRONICLE ndnd thethe MoonMoon lives while their peacekeeping mission in Kosovo It was 2002. Mark’s five-member family was living in an apartment on the seventh floor in big city looking to the east. Mark's father died two years earlier after suffering a heart attack. They were living in harmony and happiness. All of the sudden out of the blue, the phone rang waking up Mark in the morning. He thought, despite the good news that you might get from a phone call, the ringing of the phone in the morn- ing is quite scary and at that time makes you shiver. He woke up in military style - fast and picked up the phone headset. From the other side he heard: Please report to your military unit, you are assigned to your new mission in Kosovo - good luck. Mark was shocked and mixed with sur- prised. He had no knowledge for the region in the Balkans. He used to hear and read about this part being a crisis area in this part of Europe - a region of great contradictions with small nations, but very capricious (he thought). OK, nevertheless this new reality, offered a new chance for him to give his peacekeeper's help. His mother woke up too with that unusual morning phone ring, his wife (she was working in accounting service) went to work, as usual, early in the morning, two-year old daughter and five- year old son were still sleeping and flying in their child dreams. Mother was taking care of them. She is at the age of 65, but still in good health. She loved very much her niece and nephew. Mark said to his mother: "Mom, today afternoon I will go to my new mission in Kosovo, I love you very much; you will take care of children," he exclaimed (It was a history of a great way). Mark was serving in the motorized unit, driving a transportation truck. However, he lost his life during an accident. It was a terrible loss. The family was informed and burial ceremony was car- ried out with the greatest honors. All mother's pain for the losses of their sons have never gone away. They were looking just like the moon looks during bright nights, shining in the idle of the night. They live with painful mem- ories for their sons who lost accidentally their lives (they are in considerable number). They are always remembered with special love, sharing the pain with their mothers and families. Life resembles to a very strange phenomenon; sudden spiritual clashes happen. Life has its sur- prising motives; new hopes come up and grow its outer beauty. Deeply inside our soul, wind blow filling us with emotions and remembrance for all those who build bridges of happiness and now fly with the wings of divine inspiration towards eternal peace as their cause of life. www.nato.int/kfor Nov. 30, 2005 3 KFOR CHRONICLE ‘BALKAN‘BALKAN KFOR Rehears By MAJ Valerie-Claire Bermond, FR Army Photos by Armend Aqifi Operation Balkan Hawk Exercise II concluded on October 28. The series of operational nicknamed DETERMINAT- ED EFFORT 2005, which were planned since summer 2004 started in March of this year. NATO forces were deployed to Kosovo to take part in a routinely scheduled operational rehearsal to ensure NATO troops and the Reserve Forces Headquarters remained pre- pared to respond to any crisis in the Balkans. During the different phases of the rehearsal the German and the Italian Operational Reserve Force Battalions were deployed into Kosovo theatre. Like those previously conducted over the course of the year, this rehearsal sent a renewed clear message of NATO's and the international communi- ty's strong resolve and commitment to maintain peace and stability in the over- all Balkans region. These maneuvers were conducted in order to rehearse the techniques of troop maneuverability, flexibility and the ability for several nations to operate together as one team. The aim of these exercises was to practice Peace 4 Nov. 30, 2005 www.nato.int/kfor KFOR CHRONICLE HAWKHAWK II’II’ als Completed Support Operations, to familiarize troops with the terrain and with envi- ronmental and logistical concept. In this sense, KFOR has imagined different kind of scenarios, in order to be able to react to any kind of situation, riots or threats. These rehearsals, planned during few months, showed that KFOR units in theatre are fully mission-capable and logistically self-sustaining by land, air and sea routes. It has also demonstrated NATO's abili- ty to reinforce already in-theatre, NATO-led forces and, if necessary, the EUFOR in Bosnia-Herzegovina, at very short notice with so-called “Over The Horizon Forces” (OTHF). The OTHF consist of multi-national, trained units with a wide range of military capabili- ties. These reserves are designed to be a mobile, versatile force to augment in- theatre forces in order to deal with any military contingency. The Commander of Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) Naples, who is the Joint Force Commander responsible for the NATO-led Balkan Operations, has coordinated the operational rehearsal. At this occasion, the multi- national NATO Headquarters in Kosovo, KFOR, has control over assigned units. www.nato.int/kfor Nov. 30, 2005 5 KFOR CHRONICLE ChangeChange ofof CommandCommand inin By LT Sara de Miguel Spanish Army Photos by CCT KFOR Italian Army Brigadier General Claudio Mora suc- ceeded Brigadier General Norbert Stier as Commander of MNB SW during a ceremony at Field Camp Prizren on November 21. During a solemn parade, COMKFOR, Lieutenant General Giuseppe Valotto, presided over the ceremony. The ceremony started with an inspection of the parade, followed by speeches from the guests of honor. The outgoing MNB SW Commander BG Stier summed up the perform- ances of MNB SW during the last six months, by expressing his sincere gratitude to the soldiers, and to the military, civilian and religious person- nel who have been part of the out- standing commitment. During the ceremony, BG Stier and COL Antonio Alecci received numer- ous awards. First, Spanish Brigadier General Jose Prieto awarded them, on behalf of the Spanish Army Chief Operations Badge in recognition of Spanish Army's units in Kosovo dur- of Staff with the Peace Support their distinguished collaboration with ing these six months. Then, German 6 Nov. 30, 2005 www.nato.int/kfor KFOR CHRONICLE BG Mora was born on July 31, 1956 and joined the Italian MNBMNB SWSW Army with the "Asagio" Mountain Artillery Battalion as LTG Kammerhoff, on behalf of the Deputy Battery Commander. Ferderal Republic of Germany After that, he was promoted to awarded them with the Mission Battery Commander in the Medal of the Bundeswehr for the same assignment and later up participation in a Bundeswehr mis- to Operations Officer. After sion abroad in the context of the several courses and hard international security presence in work he commanded the 3rd Kosovo. Italian DCOM JOHQ, on Mountain Artillery Regiment in behalf of the Italian Ministry of Tolmezzo. His last assignment Defence, awarded them with the was commanding the "Julia" Commemorative Cross for the Alpini Brigade. Military Peacekeeping Mission in He is married and has one Kosovo. And the last medal came daughter. from COMKFOR LTG Valotto. And, of course, LTG Valotto awarded them with the Non-Article 5 NATO medal. The commanders of the national contingents were also changed. LTG Kammerhoff, Commander of Bundeswehr Operations Command from Potsdam transferred the com- mand of the German KFOR contin- gent from BG Stier to COL Gerd Krop. Major General Tommaso Ferro, Deputy Commander of Armed Forces Command transferred the command of the Italian KFOR contin- gent from COL Alecci to BG Mora.
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