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Norwegian Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Runi Sommer, Head of the Norwegian Liaison to Joint
Logistics Support Group and Sessvollmoen, Norway Base Commander, talks about NATO’s JLSG
and progress thus far for Trident Juncture 2018 in Sessvollmoen, Norway on October 25, 2018.
At the end he is joined by for a “We Are NATO” shout out by Croatian Brigadier General Danko
Pintaric, the Joint Logistics Support Group Commander. The unit is part of NATO’s Very High
Readiness Joint Task Force, which is exercising in Norway as part of Trident Juncture 2018.
NATO and Norway are holding one of the largest military exercises ever held in the country.
During October and November, around 50,000 participants from all over NATO and its partners
have come to Norway for exercise Trident Juncture 2018. The exercise tests the whole military
chain – from troop training at the tactical level, to command over large forces. It trains the
troops of the NATO Response Force and forces from other allies and partners, ensuring they
can work seamlessly together.
Video by OR-8 Florian Fergen, OR-7 Michael O’Brien (JFC Naples PAO)
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00:00:00:00
SOUNDBITE (English)
Norwegian Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Runi Sommer, Head of the Norwegian Liaison to Joint
Logistics Support Group and Sessvollmoen, Norway Base Commander:
“I think that first you need to get the troops on ground. So, you need to train and exercise on
the Reception, Staging, and Onward Movement for the troops coming into theater. The
exercise Trident Juncture gives us good expertise and training with that matter. And of course,
you’re going to have to redeploy, so you’re going to have to train on that as well. In a couple of
day now we’re ending the RSOM operation and we start on the redeployment part of it. So, a
lot of good training going on. We will test our airports, we’ll test our seaports, we’ll test our
railheads, and we’ll also test our main supply routes throughout the middle and southern part
of Norway.
00:0050:41
SOUNDBITE (English)
Norway where we are training now is huge distances. Just to give you an example, if you take
the northern part of Norway and turn it upside down you end up in Rome so Norway is a quite
narrow country but it’s a long country so we are talking distances here and that’s why the field
installations and the trucks coming in here to do the convoy operations are so essential in order
to get the troops to where they are supposed to be when the exercise starts, which is today,
the 25 th of October.”
00:01:33:06
SOUNDBITE (English)
“For Norway it’s first training our host nation support capability. In Norway we operate in a
concept called the total defense concept so here in our national joint HQ we have liaisons from
the road authorities, the rail authorities, and the airport authorities and a lot of the other
governmental institutions of Norway to facilitate this huge NATO exercise and again our main
effort is host nation support.”
00:02:09:12
SOUNDBITE (English)
“It’s important to host this big exercise in Norway in the period of October soon getting into
November. One of the training objects is doing winter warfare and of course the road
conditions and the weather conditions we must pay close attention to so my biggest hope for
this exercise is that the outcome will be good and we can do it without fatal injuries when it
comes to road accidents. Welcome to Norway.”
00:02:46:22
SOUNDBITE (English)
“We are NATO.”
00:02:49:14
SOUNDBITE (English) CRO Brigadier General Darko Pintaric, Joint Logistics Support Group
Commander & Norwegian Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Runi Sommer, Sessvollmoen, Norway Base
Commander.
“We are NATO.”
# ENDS # @ 02:54:03
| Date Taken: | 10.25.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 10.26.2018 08:01 |
| Category: | Interviews |
| Video ID: | 635351 |
| VIRIN: | 181025-F-ZZ999-366 |
| Filename: | DOD_106154171 |
| Length: | 00:02:54 |
| Location: | NO |
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