Lieutenant General Ivo Střecha

Military Representative – Czech Republic
2023

Date of birth: 12 October 1965

Place of birth: Velké Mezirící

Academic background:

1981 - 1985
Grammar school Velké Mezirící
1986 - 1989 Army College Vyškov, leadership program
2000 – 2001
Battalion leadership course for army officers, Fort Benning, USA
2006 - 2007
General Staff Course / National defence management – military strategy and operational science, Brno
2013 Senior Course 122 – European security policy, Rome, Italy

Service career:

1989 - 1994 started as platoon leader and served in command posts up to deputy commander of tank battalion, 12th Tank Regiment of the 20th Motorized Rifle Division, and the 33rd Tank Regiment of the 3rd Mechanised Division, and later Chief of Staff of the 3rd Tank Battalion – training
1995 - 2003 Staff officer and then Deputy Commander, 73rd Mechanised Battalion
2002
Chief of Staff, 1st Czech-Slovak Battalion KFOR, Kosovo
2003 - 2004
Chief of G3 combat training branch, Land Forces Command; Commander 4th Czech-Slovak Contingent, KFOR - Kosovo
2004 - 2005
Commander, 71st Mechanised Battalion
2005 - 2006
Chief of Staff, 7th Mechanised Brigade
2008
Commander, Czech Armed Forces 1st Contingent ISAF Provincial Reconstruction Team Logar, Afghanistan
2008 - 2011
Commander, 7th Mechanised Brigade, Joint Force Command
2011 - 2013
Director, Land Forces Department, MoD Force Development Division – Operations Division
2013 - 2016
Branch chief, Joint Force Training Centre (JFTC), Bydgoszcz, Poland
1 Aug 2016 – 30 Sep 2017
Deputy Commander of the Czech Land Forces
1 Oct 2017 – 31 Mar 2018
Deputy Director, MoD Capabilities Development and Planning Division
1 Apr 2018 – 11 Jul 2022
Director, MoD Forces Development Division
12 Jul 2022 – 30 Sept 2023
First Deputy Chief of the General Staff
1 Oct 2023
Czech Military Representative to NATO and the European Union

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