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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).  

From Monday 7th to Friday 10th April 2025, NMIOTC, as a NATO Education and Training Facility (NETF) and continuum member of Military Strategic Partnership (MSP), participated with a three-staff-officer delegation in the Military Strategic Partnership Conference for 2025 (MSPC 25), organized and conducted by NATO SHAPE Partnership Directorate (PD), in Doha, Qatar. In parallel to the Conference, an exhibition was hosted at the same premises, where NMIOTC participated as exhibitor together with other NATO and Partners Education and Training facilities. The objectives of the Conference and exhibition were to advance the NATO partnership processes and programmes; secure planning of efforts;

On Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025, the 28th Senior Course of the National Security School, Hellenic Police Academy, paid a formal visit to NMIOTC, in the context of their educational trip to Crete. The Senior Officers attending this National Security School’s Course, were led by the School’s Commandant, Police Colonel Anastasia Mylona. The visitors were thoroughly informed about the Centre’s mission, and had a productive conversation with NMOTC Chief of Staff and NMIOTC Director of Education & Training.