Hungary’s Security Starts Beyond the Borders
Hungary’s Security Starts Beyond the Borders 2024 Events in Photos – Mission Compilation
Text: defence.hu | 14:17 January 7, 2025This compilation has been made from the most important events of the year left behind us. We browsed our archive for the most outstanding mission event of each month and chose the best photo taken there.
January. Major General Dr. László Sticz took over the command of the European Union’s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUFOR Operation Althea) ceremonially in Camp Butmir, near Sarajevo on 31 January (photo: Noémi Bruzák/MTI)
February. Hungarian and Polish soldiers serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) received their medals for peacekeeping at a medal parade before finishing their tour of duty in the foreign mission (photo: UNIFIL)
March. In 2024, the Hungarian Command Year of EUFOR, our nation provided the Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC) capability to the mission (photo: First Lieutenant Barna Koncsek)
April. Dancon March was again attended by Hungarian soldiers, who entered to beat the nearly 25 km distance (photo: KFOR)
May. As the opening of the Hungarian National Week series of events in Camp Butmir, in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the soldiers and civilian staff of the other 22 nations of EUFOR Operation Althea, the NATO Headquarters Sarajevo and the units of the BiH armed forces had the opportunity to learn about Hungarian lifestyle, culture and traditions (photo: Tünde Rácz)
June. Several work fields need to be coordinated so that the MEDEVAC capability provided by Hungarian soldiers to EUFOR Operation Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina can run like clockwork (photo: Tünde Rácz)
July. Exceptionally complex and extremely realistic – these are the words that can best describe the Bridge’s Too Far multinational exercise, organized by the 30th HDF KFOR rotation (photo: Tünde Rácz)
August. It was still dark when the whole Hungarian personnel of EUFOR – except for the justified absence of those on standby duty – gathered for a morning run in Camp Butmir, Sarajevo (photo: Veronika Dévényi)
September. Outstanding Hungarian participation in Quick Response 2024 of EUFOR Operation Althea (photo: Veronika Dévényi)
October. The new H225M helicopter of EUFOR Operation Althea was officially handed over in Camp Butmir, Sarajevo on 17 October. The new, modern rotary-wing aircraft replaced the Mi-17 helicopter flying with the mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina since January (photo: Veronika Dévényi)
November. Search and rescue soldiers from Szolnok taught winching procedures with the Hungarian H145M helicopters serving with EUFOR to Bosnian mountain rescuers (photo: Veronika Dévényi)
December. Multinational exercise in KFOR Camp Novo Selo (photo: Gergely Schöff)
