Telemark Battalion
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Telemark Battalion |
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 Association badge |
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| Lineup | 1993 |
| Country |
 Norway
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| Armed forces | Norwegian Armed Forces |
| Armed forces | army |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Type | Special unit |
| Insinuation | North Brigade |
| Location | Rena |
| commander | |
| Current commander |
Lieutenant Colonel Lars S. Lervik |
The Telemark Battalion ( tmbn ; Norwegian Telemark Bataljon ) is an infantry - battalion of the brigade north of the Norwegian Armed Forces . The battalion is stationed in Rena ( Åmot municipality , Fylke Innlandet ) and consists of five companies . It consists of a tank company (mainly Leopard 2 ), a reconnaissance company ( CV9030 , ATVs and various reconnaissance equipment , including UAVs etc.), two mechanized infantry companies and a supply and reserve unit. The battalion is a special unit in which no basic military service members serve. It was founded by the Norwegian armed forces as a rapid reaction force, especially for direct missions abroad.
history
The unit was set up in 1993 as motorized infantry in connection with the Immediate Reaction Force in Heistadmoen , which was brought into being by a resolution of June 18, 1993 of the Storting (Norwegian Parliament). After the operations in Bosnia it was decided to redesign the battalion and from July 1, 2003 the new unit was operational. From 1993 to 1996 the battalion was assigned to the brigade in Northern Norway ( Brigaden i Nord-Norge ), which was established from the former Tysklandsbrigaden (1947 to 1953). Since 1996 the Telemark Battalion belongs to the newly created Brigade Nord . The Telemark Battalion suffered the first casualty of the Norwegian ISAF mission on May 23, 2004, when grenadier Tommy Rødningsby was killed in action.
In the summer of 2009, the battalion attracted more attention when it became known that its officers had issued orders to their soldiers that the houses of alleged insurgents, Taliban and their supporters in Afghanistan with a red skull graffiti in the style of the Punisher - Comics too. After lengthy public discussions and after the newspaper Verdens Gang reported in September 2010 that some soldiers in the battalion were still using the Punisher skull in Afghanistan, the Norwegian military leadership finally prohibited this.
In 2010, another soldier in the battalion was killed while on duty in Afghanistan. In 2010, the Dagbladet reported on a video of the company commander Rune Solberg of the Telemark Battalion with a battle cry based on the Vikings in action against the Taliban: Til Valhall , in German: To Walhalla . The Norwegian journalist Dag Herbjørnsrud published an interview with the Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik in an editorial in 2011 , where he stated in connection with this, "that we do not need soldiers with horned helmets and battle cries, only professionals to keep peace".
Stationings
The Telemark Battalion was deployed on the following foreign and peace missions:
- 1997–1999: SFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1999–2002: KFOR in Kosovo
- 2003: in Iraq
- 2003–2004: ISAF and then in Kabul , Afghanistan
- 2005–2006: ISAF in Kabul, Afghanistan
- 2006: ISAF in Mazar-e Sharif , Afghanistan
- 2006–2007: ISAF in Meymaneh , Afghanistan
- 2008: ISAF in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan
- 2008–2012: ISAF in Maimana , Afghanistan
- 2014: Syria
Known soldiers
- Joshua French , sentenced to death prison inmate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , on charges of espionage and "forming criminal associations"
- Emil Johansen , Norwegian writer
- Tjostolv Moland , inmate sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , died on death row for espionage and “forming criminal associations” .
- Rune Wenneberg , highly decorated commander and battalion chief
Web links
- Telemark battalion on snl.no in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
- Web presence on tmbn.no (Norwegian)
- Telemark Battalion on vk.com (Norwegian)
- Telemark Battalion veterans on tmbn-veteran.no (Norwegian)
- Heroes of Telemark report on bmlv.at at the Bundesheer (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Telemark Battalion in new combat with Taliban ( Memento of May 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Aftenposten , May 27, 2008 English
- ^ Norwegian soldier killed in Kabul , CNN , May 23, 2004 in English
- ↑ "(Six of nine Norwegians killed by roadbombs) Seks av ni norske drept av veibomber " ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. " May 23, 2004: Grenader Tommy Rødningsby fra Telemark bataljon blir drept "
- ↑ http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10036791
- ↑ http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/09/28/nyheter/forsvaret/innenriks/13590682/ 12 seconds into the video: " Men dere som er rovdyret. Taliban er nå byttet. Til Valhall "
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bakgrunnen til Tjostolv Moland og Joshua French
- ↑ "(- A miracle that I am alive) - Et mirakel at jeg lever "
- ↑ - That he dypt tragisk - State Minister Jens Stoltenberg sier norske myndigheter has worked hard for å hjelpe Moland and French ut av Congo.
- ↑ Bakgrunnen til Tjostolv Moland og Joshua French
- ↑ Full article in Aftenposten , December 11, 2010, page 4, by Kristin Høiland
