End of the Ground Pepper 2014 multinational army training in Slovakia.

Armies from the Visegrad 4 group (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary) and the United States have completed multiple mission through out the whole training, Slovak Minister of Defense Martin Glvac told a press conference on Tuesday, october 21. Glvac, who was overlooking the training process, was pleased to see progress in command abilities. "Mission Ground Pepper 2014 is a fine possibility how we can verify the ability of our men to work together with other NATO member countries", said Glvac. Soldiers of the 22nd Multinational Task Force (22MNTF) have verified their ability of joint command and the basic requirements of the NATO membership.

According to Article 5 of the Washington treaty (establishing NATO), an attack on one of the member countries is considered an attack on all members and therefor the soldiers of the 22MNTF have simulated a separatist attack on one of the members. Objectives of the training were to create a command post, mask all the machinery and to evacuate civilians. The training will finish till Oct. 22, when the command center will evaluate the training mission.

About 1,300 soldiers were gathered with about 300 vehicles, including T-72s, infantry fighting vehicles, 155 mm Zuzana howitzers. The half of the contingent were from Slovakia. A U.S. squad was integrated in a slovakian company.