“It took six months of rigorous preparation, with several phases, and in which the requirement was permanent, bringing the training conditions as close as possible to the demanding characteristics of the theater of operations”, says RI 14 in a statement.
The ceremony to hand over the national standard will take place next to the Vouzela Town Hall, at 2:30 pm, and will be presided over by the General Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, General José Nunes da Fonseca.
The Force was certified as combat ready in mid-April, in accordance with NATO standards, and will spend six months in Romania.
RI 14 has hosted some of these forces, the first of which left Viseu for Romania in 2022, with a commander from the Infantry Regiment itself.
The mission is justified by the intensification of the armed conflict in Eastern Europe and the activation of NATO defense plans, which forced the deployment of Portuguese military personnel to Romania and the integration of NATO forces in the region.
Portugal has been represented by a national contingent, with a commander, a liaison officer to the Romanian armed forces and a company of wheeled mechanized snipers, reinforced with a support detachment, a joint information module, an anti-aircraft defense module and a geographic, geological and oceanographic module.
