Indian, Mongolian armies’ joint exercise

Tribune News Service

Kolkata, April 5

Soldiers from Mongolia, the country with which China shares 4,000-km border, have arrived in Mizoram to receive military training at the elite Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School run by the Eastern Command of the Army at Vairengte in the foothills of Mizoram.

The two-week joint military training exercise began today. The Mongolian team consists of nine officers and 36 soldiers of the elite 084 Special Forces Task Battalion.

The Indian side is represented by a contingent of three officers, four JCOs and 39 soldiers of the Jammu & Kashmir Rifles battalion.

The training encompasses important aspects such as convoy protection, room intervention drills and ambush and counter ambush drills.

India and Mongolia had signed a 10-year defence cooperation agreement that was renewed for another decade in 2011.