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TRIDENT JUNCTURE 2018 - German Captain Jan Kopitzki, the Deputy Commander of the 2nd Company Multinational Engineer Battalion Conducts Interview During River Crossing Training

Allied Joint Force Command Naples

Oct. 23, 2018 | 6:06

NATO partners and allies assigned to the 2nd Company Multinational Engineer Battalion, part of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTC) conducted river crossing training as part of Exercise TRIDENT JUNCTURE 2018. The training was led by German forces and included Soldiers and vehicles from Latvia, Ireland, Norway and the Netherlands. The training was held on multiple days at Camp Røedsmoen located in Rena, Norway. The footage seen in B-roll package was collected on October 23, 2018.

German Captain Jan Kopitzki, the Deputy Commander of the 2nd Company Multinational Engineer Battalion: “Today we are here at the water crossing site with the amphibious breaching platoon. Additionally we have some parts of construction machines and diving groups added to the platoon in order to ensure the traffic before, over and after the river; so the main aim is that every part of the troops which are going over the water can march to the water fluently then can go over the water and drive from the water without any delay. So therefore, we need the amphibious rigs but we also need part that make sure the entrance to the water is straight so that everybody can drive to the water safely and out safely.”

“So far this exercise for me and my company has been a very good opportunity to train with multinational forces and to show our own capabilities and to train our own capabilities and additionally to that the training area here in Norway is really great and its good to see new areas and new training areas and new grounds to train they provide us with some possibilities to train which we don’t have in Germany.”

Journalists: Sgt. Marc-Andre Gaudreault and MC2 Brett Dodge

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German Captain Jan Kopitzki introduces himself first in German then in English. “So, my name is Captain Jan Kopitzki I am deputy company commander of the 2nd company multinational engineer battalion and today I am the crossing site commander.”

00:29:09
Captain Kopitzki explains what his team is doing at the exercise site in German
then English.
“So, today at the site we are ensuring wet gap crossing using amphibious rigs M3 to carry over the water national German and multinational parts of the VJTF brigade using ferry traffic.”
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Captain Kopitzki describes in more detail the training exercise in German then English.
“Its taking place at the river Loepsun which is close approximately 2km away from camp Røedsmoen.”
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Captain Kapitzki elaborates on exercise specifics first in German then English. “Today we are here at the water crossing site with the amphibious breaching platoon. Additionally we have some parts of construction machines and diving groups added to the platoon in order to ensure the traffic before, over and after the river; so the main aim is that every part of the troops which are going over the water can march to the water fluently then can go over the water and drive from the water without any delay. So we have a clear march to the water, over the water and away from the water. So therefore we need the amphibious rigs, of course, but we also need part that make sure the entrance to the water is straight so that everybody can drive to the water safely and out safely.”
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Captain Kapitzki describes previous day’s events first in German then English. “So yesterday, we sent parts from Belgium and the Netherlands over and one reconnaissance platoon from Great Britain and today we sent over a Latvian platoon from our own company. So the amphibious M3s is a unique capability of our company and our nation. It ensures no matter how big the water gap is and if there are infrastructure bridges missing or are destroyed we can send the troops of the VJTF brigade over.”

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Captain Kapitzki describes how his troops are enjoying the exercise thus far, first in German then English.
“So far this exercise for me and my company has been a very good opportunity to train with multinational forces and to show our own capabilities and to train our own capabilities and additionally to that the training area here in Norway is really great and its good to see new areas and new training areas and new grounds to train they provide us with some possibilities to train which we don’t have in Germany.”

00:05:37:14
Captain Kapitzki describes his company’s preparedness for the elements first in German then English.
“So the German Armed Forces provided us with all the equipment we needed for this cold weather and provided us with the training we needed. Our forces are prepared to train in these weather conditions.”
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