Comprehensive Logistic System Exercise

The main focus was on operational logistics, so in line with NATO operational procedures, besides carrying out day-to-day supply duties, the participants were practicing how to execute the tasks involved in the logistic support of operations.

In the interest of creating an allied environment, the exercise involved the international logistic personnel of Székesfehérvár-based Headquarters Multinational Division Centre (HQ MND-C) and the experts of NATO Force Integration Unit Hungary (NFIU HUN), so that the training audience be able to execute operational logistic tasks in accordance with the NATO operational procedures and reporting system.

The logistic system exercise was conducted concurrently with a live exercise of the Special Operations Forces (SOF), in the concept of which, alongside the implementation of servicing, an important role was already played by the training for the procedures of a newly established garrison support system. One of the central elements of the training was the use of NATO’s logistic information system called Logistics Functional Area Services (LOGFAS), which was used for the first time during a system-level exercise by involving all military organizations and their superior command elements.

Brigadier General Tibor Szabó, Chief of HDF Defence Staff Logistics Directorate emphasized that the primary objective of the exercise was training rather than evaluation, as Hungarian logisticians must confidently carry out their tasks both in domestic and allied environments on the tactical, operational and strategic levels alike, by using system thinking and also familiarizing themselves with the functioning of logistic organizations on higher operational levels.

While visiting the exercise, General Dr. Gábor Böröndi, Chief of HDF Defence Staff said that such a complex logistic training had long been unprecedented in Hungary. Mainly in the light of transferable insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War, The Chief of Defence considers the transformation of logistics a priority area, and the present exercise a milestone and a huge step forward.