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Accident at Sarajevo Airport
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Sarajevo International Airport - Dec. 23, a Crossair HB-IXH
overshot the runway by 100 meters when it tried to land at
Sarajevo airport in snowy conditions. The aircraft was recovered
by Monday afternoon and parked on the apron.
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Free Fall
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Visoko - Dec. 24, a four-man team from the Portuguese Operational
Reserve carried out eight free fall jumps from a Slovenian
helicopter, 6,000 feet above their camp in Visoko. They provided
an unforgettable spectacle for the local people.
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Beware! Mines!
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Sarajevo -Every fortnight the SFOR Mine Information Co-ordination
Cell (MICC) gives two mine awareness training courses at Butmir
Camp. The courses are mandatory for all soldiers, due to the
danger mines represent in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
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A sort of homecoming
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Sarajevo - U.S. Army Spc. Aleksandra Vukosavljevic was born
in Sarajevo. The war separated her from her parents for two
years. The family eventually reunited and immigrated to the
United States. Now she is back here, this time as a soldier
in SFOR.
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The vital spark
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Prijedor - Civil Military Co-operation (CIMIC) teams from
Multinational Division Southwest (MND-SW) have been improving
people's lives within their area of responsibility (AOR) by
helping to restore electricity to communities.
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Crossing the line
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Ugljevik - Six years after the signature in Paris of the
General Framework Agreement for Peace (GFAP), the Inter Entity
Boundary Line still represents a physical and psychological
barrier to returnees on their way back home.
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A learning process
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Pazaric - Jan. 11, a multinational group of SFOR soldiers,
led by the U.S. Army chaplain, took boxes of aid containing
food, books and clothes to an institute for the protection
of children and young people.
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Mom, what is war?
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Sarajevo - Senad Mavric works for SFOR as the Psychological
Support Element's artist. In his spare time, however, he continues
to work on his own projects. "Mom What Is War?"
is one of these projects and has been completed after several
years of work.
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Working together in Trebevic
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Trebevic - A French signals team, an Italian one, a Republika
Srpska (RS) signals technician and an Italian infantry squad
work together in the Trebevic Telecommunication Centre (TCC),
on top of a peak near Sarajevo.
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Along the banks of the Sava
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Brezovo Polje Selo - Sliding at high speed along muddy country
lanes, the Russian APC crosses the snow-covered plains of
Brcko District, heading north toward Brezovo Polje Selo along
the Sava river, which marks the border with Croatia.
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Czech CIMIC: small team, big results
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Prijedor - With the departure of the Czech Battle Group last
fall, only 15 soldiers from the Czech Republic remain in SFOR.
In Prijedor, a team of five remains dedicated to continuing
the important work of Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC).
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Taming the Aardvark - operational
training for Canadians
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Bosanski Petrovac - Several combat engineers and maintenance
specialists from the Canadian Battle Group in Bosnia and Herzegovina
recently completed a course that qualified them to operate
and maintain the Aardvark, a mine-clearing machine.
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Twins in the spotlight
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Davide and Marco Caputo are twin warrant officers in the
Italian Battle Group, which is based at Tito Barracks, Sarajevo.
While they belong to different Alpine Regiments in Italy,
it has led to confusion at Tito Barracks throughout the mission.
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