The set of operational-training activities of the exercise called "Vipera 2020" was completed. The Mobile Training Team (MTT) of the Bilateral Support Mission in Niger (MISIN), was engaged, together with the Niger parachute battalion, in a continuous 24-hour exercise in which two rifle platoons carried out all the technical-tactical procedures with which a night station was carried out, and then a quick attack was carried out the following morning.
In the presence of the Chief of Staff of the Niger Army, Brigadier General Seidou Badje and the commander of MISIN, Brigadier General Claudio Dei, during the closing ceremony of the exercise, the inauguration of the "false cockpit "Air for the launch training of the Nigerian parachute battalion.
The training artifact, designed by an officer of the 1st Infrastructure Department of the Italian Army of Turin of the MISIN Infrastructure Management Center (IMC) cell, was created with the participation of the Nigerian military.
During the night, exercises aimed at measuring the capacitive level of the units operating in the stationing phase were performed, while the following morning the paratroopers fired an attack aimed at testing the capabilities of the units firmly attested in defense of the field posts.
On the premise of this, six weeks of theoretical-practical training conducted by the MISIN Mobile Training Team, in which various topics on an individual level were discussed, including:
- handling and correct use of the weapon supplied;
- notions of survival;
- battlefield work;
- overcoming obstacles / dangerous points and mutual assistance in case of injury.
Furthermore, as a premise of the typical activities of the "infantry in defense", the knowledge of the basic principles of the defense of a position has been deepened, with particular attention to the dispositions of the defensive positions, their concealment through masking and the basic principles of daytime observation. and at night with the treatment of the inflow and exfiltration itineraries.
The exercise was an opportunity to test the command and control capacity of the officers and non-commissioned officers, through the refinement of the assignment of tasks, the study of the terrain and the issuing of orders through a expeditious terrain model.
