They were looking for the missing in the contaminated zone

Find Territorials

Two hours later, the situation got even more complicated. The commander of the Territorial Defence platoon reported to dispatcher 112 that in the same area, during night-time tactical exercises in hard forest areas, soldiers began to lose their orientation and complain of visual disturbances and increasing drowsiness. To the west of Nowy Lupkov in the municipality of Komańcza in Podkarpacie, communication with 10 military was lost.

Directed to search for soldiers 203 Battalion of defence Borderland with 20 The Industrial Territorial Defence Brigade they identified geographical coordinates where the missing territorials could be located and then moved on to action. On the slopes there were another services: policemen, firefighters, paramedics, Krynicka GOPR Group with dogs and border guards with thermal camera and drone.

Two of the missing territorialists launched a smoke candle – this is the first lead. The drone operators in the air were looking for both soldiers and a suspected unmanned man. At that time, WOT-ows, already dressed in individual contamination protection (ISOPS), reached the origin of smoke and designated a dangerous zone. Police have taken over the coordination of operations.

Finally, the missing manages to find and evacuate to a safe place quads with trailers for the carriage of people lying down. 1 of them, however, needs decontamination due to the fact that he had contact with an enemy drone.

It's just a drill.

This was the script of the eight-hour emergency exercises of the Commune Crisis Management squad in Komańcza under the codename “New Hulls ’25”. The 20 BOT soldiers trained in cold conditions, moisture and mountain elevations to, as the Brigadier-General Rafał Laska explains, face the situation as close as possible to the real threat.

– Given the multithreading of exercises, they should be considered to have been achieved at a advanced level. peculiar attention should be paid to the good functioning of the command post, to which all information from the rescue services and WOT patrols sweeping the area in search of their colleagues – the lieutenant assesses. As he adds, the location of individual missing, i.e. hidden in the forest participants of the training, was visible to the organizers of the exercises in real time thanks to the GPS signal.

Faster and more effective in the event of a threat

Such municipal exercises, as Jacek Kowalski, the inspector of crisis management, defence and civilian protection, have been organized annually since 2022, and this time the WOT was first included.

Municipal officials point out that border areas in peculiar are exposed to hybrid attacks from an aggressor from the east. They indicate drone incidents, illegal migrants acting on behalf of abroad intelligence, sabotage and diversion acts, including initiating fires or accidents. Their goal is to check the consequence of our crisis strategy to the threat or paralysis of the services.

Therefore, the remaining 2 scenarios of Saturday exercises in Nowy Lupków afraid the fight against the tyre dump fire caused by saboteurs to excitrate the social and passenger train accident, in which the divers placed dangerous chemicals. All these exercises served to guarantee that, at the time of the real danger of service, they were able to act faster, more efficiently and, above all, together.