Under EUFOR mentoring, current specialized staff educated newly designated armourers and stockkeepers to enable AFBiH to store small arms and light weapons according to international standards as a precondition to ensure expeditious handling of surplus stockpiles. Topics like ballistics, weapon history, administration and stockpiling were outlined. In the practical part of the course hands on storage, distinguishing and matching arms, stockpile administration and transfer procedures were covered.
Since many of the current specialists will retire in the upcoming years, education of the next generation became crucial to manage and dispose the huge stockpiles of war remnants which still can pose a threat to the safe and secure environment in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(Source: eufor)