From 8th to 11th April 2025, NMIOTC delivered a tailored training package to FGS Bayern’s Force Protection Team in various VBSS areas, including Tactical Movement Inside/Outside of Coastal Critical Sites and Tactical Sweep. The trainees utilized a variety of the Centre’s outdoor training facilities, varying from the Containers Stack to the Coastal Urban Training Area.
From 7th to 11th of April 2025, the Course 29000 “Detection and Identification of WMD (CBRN Materials) in Maritime Interdiction” was successfully conducted at the NMIOTC premises. Seventeen (17) trainees coming from seven (7) NATO and Partner Nations (Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Netherlands and Poland) attended the course. Subject Matter Experts from US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), Institute for Maritime Operations Training (IMAF) and also Austrian and Finnish Army, supported the course as augmenters and instructors.
From the 31st of March to 11th of April 2025, the Resident Course 21000 “Medical Combat Care in Maritime Operations” was conducted at the NMIOTC’s premises. The goal of this course was to transfer knowledge and create & enhance trainees’ skills so as to provide pre-hospital emergency medical assistance from the point of injury in the mission/theatre until the final transfer to the closest Medical Treatment Facility is accomplished. In this iteration, in collaboration with the U.S. 64 Medical Detachment Veterinary Service Support, a pilot module pertaining to K9 TCCC was presented to students for the first time. The module
From 5th to 6th April 2025, NMIOTC delivered Visit Board Search and Seizure (VBSS) tailored training with a Mobile Education and Training Team (METT) to participants of the Exercise SEA SHIELD 25, in Constanța, Romania. In total, nineteen (19) participants from BGR and ROU Navies Boarding Teams and ROU SOF received the aforementioned training.
From 31st of March to 4th of April 2025, the NMIOTC Course 6000 “Weapons of Mass Destruction in Maritime Interdiction Operations (WMD in MIO)” was conducted at the Centre’s premises. In total, eighteen (18) trainees coming from eleven (11) countries (Algeria, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece, Jordan, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom and USA) attended the course. Instructors from U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and the Joint CBRN Defence CoE provided invaluable support to the course with their expertise and equipment, in addition to the Centre’s Instructors and assets.
From 31st to 4th of April 2025, the Resident Course 31000 “Harbour Protection and its relation to MIO”, with support from the NATO Centre of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters (CoE CSW) and the Bundeswehr’s Technical Center for Ships and Naval Weapons, Maritime Technology and Research (WTD-71), was conducted at the NMIOTC premises. In total, eighteen (18) trainees from five (5) NATO Nations (Germany, Greece, Latvia, Portugal and Slovenia) were trained in NATO Practices & Procedures regarding operational and tactical dimensions of planning and conducting Harbour Protection Operations (HPO).
