Hungarian logistics specialist working for UN’s Western Sahara mission

The significance of the NATO/EU and UN missions in the life of Hungarian Defence Forces are well known. Most of the people heard that 1000 officer, non commissioned officer and soldier can serve in abroad in the same time. Unfortunately, not everybody can serve outside and sometimes not so easy to find volunteers for some positions. However, we have a training centre, where we can prepare the applicants for international service, there is still some deficiency in our training. Although, we have a huge number of experienced people from various missions, we still not using properly their knowledge, which they collected on the field. It could be very useful if we can collect their data’s about the mission where they served to share with others who are going to serve in the same or similar mission. In February 2003 I had the possibility to carry out a one-year-service in the UN’s Western Sahara mission as a military observer. The mission itself was a challenge for me because I had the opportunity to put into practice all the skills I learnt at the Greek Peace Training Centre and also at training courses in Hungary. I’d like to present the experiences, which I got there, mostly from logistic perspective to help others, who are planning to go any missions