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Telemark Battalion in Afghanistan

 

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Dive teams

 

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CBRN Teams

Øvelse Milengex 2014 er en årlig EOD- og CBRN øvelse i det nordiske forsvarssamarbeidet (NORDEFCO). Dette var første gang hærens ekslosivryddere deltok på denne øvelsen - hvor eksplosiver kombinert med CBRN setter EOD-operatørene på store prøvelser.

KNM Helge Ingstad er i Middelhavet som en del av en dansk-norsk styrke og løser oppdraget med å støtte FN og OPCWs gjennomføringen av sikkerhetsrådsresolusjon 2118 om destruksjon av syriske kjemivåpen.

The Norwegian frigatte HNoMS Helge Ingstad (HING) is a part of the danish-norwegian task force in the UN and OPCW operation RECSYR, due to security cunsil resolution 2118 – destruction of chemical substances/weapons in Syria

Den norske fregatten KNM "Helge Ingstad" er en del av den internasjonale marinestyrken som skal eskortere Syrias kjemiske stridsmidler til destruksjon. Mens containerne med de kjemikaliene vil bli tatt om bord på det norske lasteskipet "Taiko" og det danske lasteskipet "Ark Futura", vil marinefartøy og soldater fra Danmark, Russland, Norge, Kina, Storbritannia, Finland og USA sørge for sikkerheten.

The Norwegian frigate HNoMS "Helge Ingstad" is part of the international naval force who will escort Syria's chemical agents to destruction. While the containers with chemicals will be taken on board the Norwegian freighter "Taiko" and the Danish cargo ship "Ark Futura", naval vessels and troops from Denmark, Russia, Norway, China, the UK, Finland and the United States are securing the operation.

 

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Fridtjof Nansen

 

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Besetningen på KNM Helge Ingstad gjennomfører en gassvernøvelse. Faren for en kjemikalielekkasje under transporten av Syrias kjemiske stridsmidler er liten, men de norske soldatene er likevel forberedt på det verste. Øvelsen ble gjennomført med lufttett fartøy, vernedrakter og gassmasker

The crew of KNM Helge Ingstad completed a gas safety exercise. The danger of a chemical leak during transportation of Syria's chemical agents is small, but the Norwegian and Danish soldiers are still prepared for the worst. The exercise was conducted with air-tight vessel, protection suits and gas masks.

Tirsdag ble første last med kjemiske stridsmidler fraktet ut av Syria. Den dansk-norske marinestyrken gikk inn til havnebyen Latakia, der det danske lasteskipet "Ark Futura" tok om bord flere konteinere. Den norske fregatten KNM "Helge Ingstad" sørget for sikkerheten i havnebassenget under opplastingen.


The first load of chemical agents was transported out of Syria. The Danish-Norwegian task group entered the port city of Latakia, where the Danish cargo ship "Ark Futura" took on board several containers. The Norwegian frigate HNoMS "Helge Ingstad" and the Danish warship “Esbern Snare” secured the harbor area during the operation.

Den norske fregatten Helge Ingstad i havnen i Limassol på Kypros. Fartøyet er en del av den dansk-norske styrken som skal frakte Syrias kjemiske stridsmidler ut av landet og til destruering.

The Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad left the port of Limassol in Cyprus. The vessel is part of the Danish-Norwegian force that will transport Syria's chemical agents out of the country to destruction. The force is ready for a quick response when they get the green light to go into Syria.

Soldater fra Marinens jegervåpen skal beskytte det norske lasteskipet "Taiko", som skal frakte Syrias kjemiske stridsmidler til destruksjon.

Soldiers from the Norwegian Naval Special Warfare Group on mission to protect the Norwegian cargo vessel "Taiko", who will transport Syria's chemical agents to destruction.

KNM Helge Ingstad er i Middelhavet som en del av en dansk-norsk styrke og løser oppdraget med å støtte FN og OPCWs gjennomføringen av sikkerhetsrådsresolusjon 2118 om destruksjon av syriske kjemivåpen.

The Norwegian frigatte HNoMS Helge Ingstad (HING) is a part of the danish-norwegian task force in the UN and OPCW operation RECSYR, due to security cunsil resolution 2118 – destruction of chemical substances/weapons in Syria

 

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KNM Helge Ingstad er i Middelhavet som en del av en dansk-norsk styrke og løser oppdraget med å støtte FN og OPCWs gjennomføringen av sikkerhetsrådsresolusjon 2118 om destruksjon av syriske kjemivåpen.


The Norwegian frigatte HNoMS Helge Ingstad (HING) is a part of the danish-norwegian task force in the UN and OPCW operation RECSYR, due to security council resolution 2118 – destruction of chemical substances/weapons in Syria

Soldatene fra Marinens Jegervåpen er en del av mannskapet på KNM Helge Ingstad under operasjon Recsyr, og bidrar til nærsikring og styrkebeskyttelse av lastefartøyet Taiko og KNM HING. KNM Helge Ingstad er i Middelhavet som en del av en dansk-norsk styrke og løser oppdraget med å støtte FN og OPCWs gjennomføringen av sikkerhetsrådsresolusjon 2118 om destruksjon av syriske kjemivåpen.

The costal rangers conduct Force Protection for the cargo vessel Taiko. The Norwegian frigatte HNoMS Helge Ingstad (HING) is a part of the danish-norwegian task force in the UN and OPCW operation RECSYR, due to security cunsil resolution 2118 – destruction of chemical substances/weapons in Syria

 

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Fregatten KNM Helge Ingstad på oppdrag i Middelhavet for å eskortere Syrias kjemiske stridsmidler til destruksjon

Norwegian frigate HNoMS Helge Ingstad on mission in the Mediterranean sea to escort Syria's chemical agents to destruction

 

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I realize this doesn't have anything to do with Nordic Militaries - as per the conditions of the thread, but I'm putting it here none-the-less. If anyone has a problem with that, take it up with @SvenSvensonov , in 6 months, when his ban is over.

How Volunteers Built a Memorial To One of the Worst Mass Shootings Ever

Today marks four years since a gunman killed 77 people in Norway, 69 of them on the small island of Utøya. In time for the anniversary, the island has unveiled the finished memorial to the victims. But it’s not the memorial officials had originally planned, and the reason why illustrates how difficult memorializing can be for a country.

In May of 2014, we wrote that Norway had selected a design for a permanent memorial on the island, created by a Swedish artist named Jonas Dahlberg. Dahlberg’s plan was dramatic; it required cutting away a huge slice of land from the island to create a thin, 70-foot-wide channel where water could pass and where the names of the victims would be inscribed on the rock cliffs. The idea, he explained, was to create a piece of landscape art that would reflect the void or wound that was left to the victims’ families. “The cut is an acknowledgement of what is forever irreplaceable,” he said.

The plan was very well-received. Online, especially, it got a huge amount of attention. But in the end, the plan was postponed indefinitely—seemingly both because of criticism by locals and by concerns about how it would affect the area. In its place this week, officials unveiled today a different, smaller memorial called The Clearing: A band of steel with the names of the victims carved out of the metal, hanging in tension from tall pines around the area.

Designed by the Bergen-based architects 3RW, it’s a graceful and understated sculpture. But it’s interesting that Dahlberg’s memorial got so much attention yet was left behind—postponed, officially. So what happened? It’s unclear how families of the victims felt about the design, but this beautifully written—even when translated by Google—story in Norway’s Aftenposten about the process of grieving and memorializing on Utøya explains more about the long process of memorializing the attack, diving deep into the history of the island and the history of the AUF, the youth league of Norway’s labor party, which ran the summer camp on the island.

Helle Aarnes, the author of the post, explains that it’s been a long road to come to an agreement about what should happen to the island. One point of contention, in particular, was whether the camp’s buildings should be razed and rebuilt, or whether they should be preserved as sites of grief and remembrance. The AUF even invited experts on memorial design to visit, including Alice Greenwald, who directed the 9/11 Memorial.

The Clearing was actually discovered by the father of one of the victims, and as Aarnes explains, “he wanted to participate in the process of constructing a memorial there. It was decided that the site must meet two requirements: No atrocity should have taken place there, and visitors should be able to withdraw and have a moment of privacy there.”

The families of the victims participated in clearing and building the site, working to create the site and the long winding path down to the clearing themselves. Here’s how the architects explain the importance of the volunteers:

Just by facilitating volunteer efforts and the division of labor, we believe that it can add up to a good process, where the construction of the memorial can also be a part of grief processing, and provide a special relationship to the place of those involved.

The process apparently took a full 8,000 hours of volunteering, much of it from families and friends, according to Aftenposten. Perhaps that’s why a smaller, less grand memorial was selected for the island: It was built by the families and friends of the victims.

The process of building it, it seems, was just as important as the “it.” In the end, the original, very dramatic memorial may have spoken to the outside world about the atrocities that took place on the island, and perhaps to the families and friends of the victims as well. But in the end, the people who were closest to it decided to make their own.

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F**k Breivik!

 

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Sjøforsvaret Helos

 

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SAR

For anyone who thinks Women can serve in Norwegian SAR

 

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Sjøforsvaret

 

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Rescue training - @Nihonjin1051 @Gabriel92 @Armstrong @AMDR any of you have pics of our nation's military rescue programs (in the appropriate thread of course)?

I went through this course. Also did dive and emergency medical response training. I can do practically anything short of open-heart or brain surgery.

 

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Sjøforsvaret

Cute Norge sailor

 

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Telemark Battalion in Afghanistan

There is a Norwegian Veteran of Afghanistan who says he was with the Telemark battalion now fighting ISIS with the YPG

@peshmerganor • Instagram photos and videos

 

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Medical training operation - Chemical weapons exposure