EUTM Somalia - Europa

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EUTM Somalia training outputs
Mandates 1 and 2
The mission plan for EUTM Somalia provides the official framework for EU operations in Uganda. The
military strategic objective for the mission is
“to contribute to the strengthening of the NSF through the provision of military training to commanders
and specialists up to company level, and through training trainers, with a view to transferring basic and
specialist training expertise up to platoon level, under African ownership, back to Somalia”.
To achieve this objective, EUTM Somalia works in a close partnership with the Ugandan People’s Defence
Force (UPDF) to impart the required level of professional military training as envisaged in the mission
plan, to the Somali trainees. Our intensive and robust military training syllabus, designed to equip the
various ranks and formations with the palette of skills and expertise they will need, takes place over a
six-month syllabus at Bihanga Training Camp. Mandate 1 for EUTM Somalia witnessed the training
of our first and second mass Somali intakes as part of the joint EUTM Somalia/UPDF partnership.
Mandate 2 accounts for similar third and forth intakes. Some 3,029 Officers, NCOs and soldiers from
Somalia will have passed through the Bihanga training regime by the completion of business at the end
of Mandate 2, having specialised in the training modules of Fighting in Built-up Areas (FIBUA), Combat
Life Support (CLS), Communications, Mine and Improvised Explosive Device Awareness (MIEDA) and
Infantry operations. It is a figure which will undoubtedly represent a significant asset of the National
Security Force (NSF) as the transition towards a new secure Somalia gathers pace. The table portrays an
accurate picture of the numbers of Somalis who partook in the training scheme and hopefully benefited
from the experience.
Somalia NSF trainees perfecting
their skills
On parade! The finished
product…