Officials in attendance were Capt. Cameron Chen, commodore, Commander, Task Force (CTF) 68, and Command Master Chief Larry Sharpe, Croatian Rear Admiral Damir Dojkic Chief of Staff; Deputy Commander of Croatian Navy and Croatian MCPON Boris Skokic.
This construction project, to be carried out on the Croatian Naval Base at Lora, will enable further training of Croatian Armed Forces personnel in the ongoing efforts to clear and render safe the over 400 square kilometers of land mine fields in Croatia and the over 3,000 underwater mine contacts in Croatian territorial waters.
“This training center will greatly enhance the [United States European Command] EUCOM Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) training by expanding the breadth and depth of our cooperation to ensure that others can walk the earth in safety,” said Mr. Mark Veneris, EUCOM J9 department, Humanitarian Mine Action Program Manager.
14 April 2021 THULE AIR BASE, Greenland - High above the Arctic Circle, surrounded by thousands of miles of ice and snow, Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 1 went to work. While the nation’s adversaries continually look to the Arctic as a new gray zone battleground, the Naval Construction Force (NCF) proved they 14 April 2021 THULE AIR BASE, Greenland - In an effort to bolster the development of the Naval Construction Force’s (NCF) Arctic capabilities, Naval Construction Group (NCG) 2 hosted the first NCF-lead Arctic Training, Testing, and Evaluation exercise at Thule Air Base (AB) in Greenland. 14 April 2021 NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain - The Legend-class national security cutter (NSC) USCGC Hamilton (WMSL 753), the flagship of the Coast Guard’s fleet, with the Sentinel-class fast response cutters USCGC Charles Moulthrope (WPC 1141) and USCGC Robert Goldman (WPC 1142), completed a stop for fuel a
U.S. Navy trains Croatian navy in underwater mine disposal
By (0) Members of the Croatian Navy learned underwater bomb disposal techniques during a three-week session taught by U.S. Navy personnel. Photo courtesy of Croatian Navy/U.S. Embassy in Croatia
Dec. 30 (UPI) U.S. Navy personnel concluded the second of a three-part training session with the Croatian Navy on underwater mine clearance, the U.S. Navy announced this week.
The three-week session in December at the Lora Naval Base in Split, Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea, involved U.S. sailors from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Eight, who facilitated Department of Defense Humanitarian Mine Action EOD Level 2 training of the Croatian Navy s underwater EOD team.