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Stabilisation personnel hone skills in Botswana
UK military and civilian personnel have taken part in a training exercise in Botswana to hone their stabilisation skills, which will be used in Afghanistan, while also helping the government of Botswana to prepare for civil disasters and emergencies.
A group of 35, mostly Territorial Army (TA), officers and soldiers from the Military Stabilisation Support Group (MSSG) spent most of November 2011 on Exercise Civil Bridge 11 in the wetlands of Botswana's vast Okavango Delta. They deployed to the southern African republic, at the invitation of the Office of the President, to carry out an independent assessment of the National Disaster Management Office's Disaster Risk Management Plan which meant assessing the government's preparedness for disasters and emergencies such as flooding, fires and air accidents.
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