From 9^th to 13^th of December 2024, NMIOTC hosted “AEOLUS 2024”, a CBRN crisis management exercise aiming to fill the gap between field and warning & reporting exercises, as well as prepare CBRN C2 liaison officers, CBRN first response managers and CBRN JAT members to practice crisis situation management, involving both military and civilian aspects.

On Wednesday, December 18^th, 2024, the Chief of the Naval Staff of the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF), Vice Admiral Mohammed Abdulrahman Alghuraybi, accompanied by the Chief of Staff at the Hellenic Fleet, Commodore Ioannis Retsas GRC-N, the Defence Attaché of SAU to GRC, Colonel Rashed Alaboudi SAU-AF, and an 8-members delegation, visited NMIOTC.

In the context of the NATO Defence Capacity Building (DCB) program for Mauritania, Maritime Security Initiative, NMIOTC delivered, from 9^th to 13^th of December, 2024, a 2^nd Tailored Training package to twenty-five (25) Officers, Petty Officers, Corporals, and Enlisted personnel of Mauritanian Navy, Coastguard and Gendarmerie by deploying for the second year in a row, a Mobile Education and Training Team (METT) at the “Fusiliers Marins” Naval Base in Nouakchott, Mauritania.

From 8^th to 12^th of December 2024, a 5-member Mobile Training Team from NMIOTC delivered a Combined Modular Training in Maritime Interdiction Operations, Border Security and Refugee Control at the NATO-ICI Regional Centre in Kuwait (NIRC). It has been the fourth time NMIOTC trainers participate in educational activities at the NIRC premises, and the first time a weekly seminar is organized by NMIOTC.

From 8^th to 9^th of December 2024, the NMIOTC Commandant participated, along with Commodore Sheikh Mubarak Ali Yousuf Al-Sabah, Director General of the Kuwaiti Coast Guard, in the 4^th edition of ‘NATO Talk’, organized by the NATO ICI Regional Centre in Kuwait (NIRC), upon the invitation of the Director of the Centre, H.E. Mohamed Al-Oraifan.

From 25^th to 29^th of November 2024, the Resident Course 26000 “Tactical Combat Casualty Care / Combat Lifesaver in Maritime Operations” was successfully conducted at the Centre’s premises.

On Friday, November 22^nd, 2024, thirteen (13) members of the NATO Political Committee (PC), led by Mr. Gabriele Cascone, the Head of the Counter-Terrorism Section at the NATO Emerging OPS Division, visited the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre (NMIOTC).