In the morning, the first part of the fifth contingent that will have 113 members were flown from the Prague-Kbely airfield to Kabul, Schlinger said. The military health personnel is scheduled to stay in Afghanistan till the end of the year.
Then the military will withdraw the hospital from Kabul. The unit was accompanied by Dominik Duka, bishop of Hradec Kralove, East Bohemia. Schlinger said Duka was the first non-military clergyman who had set out on such a trip. "It was the first time this has happened," Schlinger said. The field hospital has been operating in Kabul since last April. A number of Slovak Czech Defence Ministry to abolish military orchestras - press ...
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Three Czech soldiers wounded in Afghanistan released home ... health personnel are also part of the new contingent. The Czech military increased the number of its troops in Afghanistan this year. It is mainly involved in the Czech Provincial Reconstruction Team operating in the Logar province. The unit includes about 200 soldiers and ten civilian experts in construction, agriculture and water management. The team wants to help improve the economic situation in the province. In the Uruzgan Province, 63 members of the chemical warfare unit from Liberec, north Bohemia, help guard the local Dutch base. The Czech military is also preparing sending an elite combat unit from Prostejov to Afghanistan.
(Ceske Noviny)
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