NATO member states' soldiers undergo mountain training in Georgia
Soldiers of NATO member states and partner countries of NATO are
undergoing an international winter training course in Georgia.
According to the Georgian Defence Ministry, 21 servicemen from
Germany, Lithuania, Norway, Estonia, Jordan, Ukraine and Armenia
are participating in military training within the scope of NATO's
Partnership for Peace Programme at the Sachkhere Mountain Training
School of the Georgian Defence Ministry in Imereti, Western
Georgia.
Instructors of the school are teaching the participants skiing,
searching for people under avalanches and technical methods of
evacuation.
The soldiers are also learning to overcome barriers on skis and to
build a snow shelter, the so-called igloo. The course will finish
with tactical marches.
The mountain rifle base at Sachkere was opened in 2006. It was
constructed with the support of France in accordance with the
cooperation programme of the ministries of defence of the two
countries. In June 2011 the base was officially assigned the status
of the training centre for the NATO Partnership for Peace
Programme.