Mission and training association

The deployment and training association is a warship association of the German Navy that is set up once a year and serves on the one hand for training and at the same time as an operational reserve for operations.

Composition and leadership

As a unit of the SAB in 2015, the frigate Hessen participated in the refugee rescue in the Mediterranean

The association is made up of various naval warships and auxiliary ships, depending on the assignment. An officer with the rank of sea captain is regularly commissioned to lead the association and serves in one of the operational flotillas, for example as commander of a frigate squadron.

The operational stresses of the navy have meant that since 2016 it has no longer been able to provide ships for an operational and training association. Instead, the officer candidates complete an on-board internship on various units of the fleet and sometimes take part in missions such as Operation Sophia . This on-board internship is also known as an EAV .

education

Since the decommissioning of the training ship Germany in 1990, the practical training of the Navy officer candidates has taken place on units of the fleet. It was either combined with training projects of the DESEX series (Destroyer Exercise) of the destroyer flotilla , or a temporary school squadron was formed. The training association has had its current name since 2006.

In addition to the training of the officer candidates, major military exercises and cooperation with partner navies are among the tasks of the EAV. The association regularly takes part in the Good Hope exercise series with the South African Navy and at times formed part of the Franco-German Navy Association . In 2014, the EAV supported various navies in West Africa in building their skills for ensuring maritime security by participating in exercise Obangame Express 2014 .

Operational use

The EAV serves as the Navy's operational reserve. If it is unexpectedly necessary to provide naval units for a foreign mission, it is intended to use the units of the EAV first. That has already happened several times.

In 2010 the association participated in Operation Active Endeavor in the Mediterranean .

In 2011, the association was used to transport Egyptian refugees from Gabès in Libya to Alexandria in Egypt during the civil war in Libya .

In 2014, the Augsburg frigate was withdrawn from the EAV to protect the US special ship Cape Ray in the eastern Mediterranean , on board whose Syrian chemical weapons are being destroyed.

In 2015, the SAB took part in Operation Atalanta and was the first contingent of the European Union Naval Force - Mediterranean to help rescue refugees in the Mediterranean.

Remarks

↑ Some union leaders were frigate captains . You had already held a post as a sea captain, but had not yet been promoted.

Individual evidence

↑ Operations and training association EAV . In: Marineforum 7 / 8-2014. P. 12

↑ ^a ^b Well proven as an operational reserve . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of June 16, 2015, p. 5

↑ Matthias Faermann. The deployment and training association . In: Linen los , 4/2016, p. 17

↑ Bertholdt Malms, Dennis Knöll, Hakan Koc. Impressions from DESEX 2004 . In: Marineforum 5-2004, pp. 45f.

^ German school squadron in the Baltic Sea . In Marineforum 4-2005, p. 30

↑ ^a ^b Task Force and Training Association 2010 . In: Marineforum 3-2010. P. 48

↑ Mission training association in See . In: Marineforum 3-2006, p. 43

↑ Example of the excellent collaboration . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of May 16, 2013, p. 8

↑ Dirk Steffen. Obangame Express 2014 - Maneuver of small steps in the Gulf of Guinea . In: Marineforum 7 / 8-2014 p. 8 ff.

↑ Wolfgang E. Nolting . Significance of security at sea for free trade and political capacity to act . In: Marineforum 3-2009 p. 3 ff.

↑ EAV brings Egyptian refugees home . In: Marineforum 4-2011. P. 41

^ Information from the Federal Ministry of Defense , accessed on June 29, 2015

↑ Press and Information Center Marine: Operation and Training Association in 2014 set to sea. Bundeswehr, February 11, 2014, accessed on June 29, 2015 .

↑ Kai Luja. Mission and training association 2015 . In: MarineForum 9-2015, p. 45 ff. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 13, 2015@1@ 2

[3] Some union leaders were frigate captains . You had already held a post as a sea captain, but had not yet been promoted.

[1] Operations and training association EAV . In: Marineforum 7 / 8-2014. P. 12

[wz150616-2] Well proven as an operational reserve . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of June 16, 2015, p. 5

[4] Matthias Faermann. The deployment and training association . In: Linen los , 4/2016, p. 17

[5] Bertholdt Malms, Dennis Knöll, Hakan Koc. Impressions from DESEX 2004 . In: Marineforum 5-2004, pp. 45f.

[6] German school squadron in the Baltic Sea . In Marineforum 4-2005, p. 30

[EAV2010-7] Task Force and Training Association 2010 . In: Marineforum 3-2010. P. 48

[8] Mission training association in See . In: Marineforum 3-2006, p. 43

[9] Example of the excellent collaboration . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of May 16, 2013, p. 8

[10] Dirk Steffen. Obangame Express 2014 - Maneuver of small steps in the Gulf of Guinea . In: Marineforum 7 / 8-2014 p. 8 ff.

[11] Wolfgang E. Nolting . Significance of security at sea for free trade and political capacity to act . In: Marineforum 3-2009 p. 3 ff.

[12] EAV brings Egyptian refugees home . In: Marineforum 4-2011. P. 41

[13] Information from the Federal Ministry of Defense , accessed on June 29, 2015

[14] Press and Information Center Marine: Operation and Training Association in 2014 set to sea. Bundeswehr, February 11, 2014, accessed on June 29, 2015 .