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ON PARADE
ON PARADE
Photos of 18 IRCON Medal Parade held in OP-Tango in Koulikoro Training Camp. The Medals were presented by Austrian OF-5, Colonel Klaus
SCHADENBAUER, commander of the Education and Training Task Force (ETTF). Austria, like Ireland, Finland and Sweden are part of the four EU
nations in the mission who are "not-military aligned". In total, 22 EU and 3 Non-EU nations are part of 25 nation strong European Union Training
Mission in Mali. The Irish troops in the mission contribute mainly as Officer and NCO trainers to FAM (Forces Armees Maliennes), providing
logistics support (S4) and Signals (S6) support to the trainers as part of the ETTF headquarters and also are responsible in the Mission Force
Headquarters for Logistics (J4) and Personnel (J1).