report from week 8 2011
ISAF - Afghanistanpersonnel: 564-568 with 9 Luxemburg military personnel
6 F-16's
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Kabul:
1 company protecting the international airbase KAIA - Kabul International Airport, part of the Force Protection Group KAIA which is under Belgian command
several Belgian military personnel are stationed at the ISAF HQ and other HQ's in Kabul. There are also trainers stationed at the School of Logistics of the Afghan Army in Kabul
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Kunduz:
several members are working with the PRT - Provincial Reconstruction Teams.
Kunduz PRT is managed by the German army. Some 35 Belgian members are integrated in this PRT:
1 EOD team (Explosive Ordonance Team)
1 aircraft handling team at Kunduz airbase
several members in CIMIC teams (Civil-Military Cooperation) around Kunduz
IT specialists
Military Police
some 90 members who are engaged on the OMLT (Operational Mentoring and Liaison Teams) which are stationed at the Kunduz PRT
for coordination purposes Belgian military are stationed at the German ISAF Regional Command North at Mazar-e-Sharif and at Batallion levels of the Afghan army
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Kandahar:
6 F-16s in Operation Guardian Falcon
since Feb 8 2011 4 Belgian trainers are engaged in a mentoring and coaching mission as a 'Air Monitoring Team' with the Afghan airforce. They are part of team of 16 (8 Lituanians, 2 Lethians and 2 Ukranians) under command of the Lethians. They advice and Afghan unit on Mi-17s (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-17).
LebanonUNIFIL: United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
Belgian presence since 1978, first with UNIFIL I and now UNIFIL II
BELUFILpersonnel: 100
1 engineers detachement added with a logistic and a 'comms and info' element operating from UNIFIL-camp at At Tiri
some personnel work at the UNIFIL-HQ at Naqourah
CongoMONUSCO:
http://monusco.unmissions.org/personnel: 12
material: 1 C-130H
PPM KINDU:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindupersonnel: 22
mission: organising, training and coaching the 321st Congolese commandobatallion URR (Unité de Reaction Rapide)
PPM FAMIKI:
personnel : 5
engineers detachement: renovating the Kindu camp
Uganda - EUTMpersonnel: 6
mission: EUTM - European Union Training Mission
BELAREBelgian Antarctic Expeditions
personnel: 2