Recovery Rodeo gives KFOR a lift
Story and photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cody Harding
4th Public Affairs Detachment
S
oldiers from the NATO-led Kosovo Forces held a
“Recovery Rodeo” on Camp Novo Selo Aug. 29
to help expand their skill sets on vehicle recovery
in preparation for the upcoming winter season.
Ukrainian Army Maj. Andre Polschuk, the maintenance
of?cer for the Ukrainian coy, said that his soldiers
enjoyed the training and learned how to help out their
multinational partners in case of a breakdown.
The event was hosted by the Multinational Battle
Group–East’s Forward Command Post, who believed
that the multiple partner nations in KFOR would be
better able to handle an emergency situation by crosstraining with their multinational counterparts.
“It was a good opportunity to see our assets and assess
different countries for future operations,” Polschuk
said. “For example, if there is an emergency situation,
we now know that if a Polish vehicle was broken, we
can help them.”
U.S. Army Chief Warrant Of?cer 2 Clinton Andrus, a
member of the Utah National Guard and the maintenance
of?cer assigned to the FCP, was tasked with developing
a training plan for the event.
“It’s been fun to watch all the different coys recover
their vehicles pro?ciently, effectively and fast with the
methods they have, because everyone seems to be very
different,” Andrus said. “Everyone has different assets,
and we want to be able to utilize the best recovery assets
for any given situation.”
The plan brought together all eight multinational coys
from MNBG-E: Armenian, French, German, Moroccan,
Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and the United States
coys. The Kellogg, Brown and Root maintenance and
recovery team and the Joint Logistical Support Group
for KFOR also participated in the training event.
Each group demonstrated how they can recover one of
their own vehicles in the ?eld with their vehicle recovery
equipment. Afterwards, Andrus had the groups work
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