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Latvians and Estonians train for IFOR role

01 March 1996

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Nearly 200 Latvian and Estonian officers and NCO's have arrived in Denmark to begin integration training with the Danish IFOR battalion. The battalion was due to deploy in April and join US troops in the North-East sector of Bosnia. Contract soldiers known as "commanders cadres" were drawn from the three Baltic states and trained for peace-keeping duties in a former Soviet tank school near Riga from last January. The basic training was organized by UK Royal Marine Commando instructors. The troops were armed with NATO-funded specially procured Chinese Type 56 assault rifles, a version of the AK-47M Kalashnikov that the commanders' cadres had previously used in the Soviet forces. Jane's Defence Weekly, 7.2.1996

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