On the grassy lands of Jutland, fifteen Air firefighters took part, this Monday, May 4, 2026, in the BRAVE BEDUIN 26 exercise, supervised from the military site of Ingeniørregimentet (engineering regiment), in Skive, Denmark. Coming from the Fire and Rescue Safety Squadrons (ESIS), the Air Firefighter Training Center (CFPA) and the 1st Specialized Air Firefighter Squadron (ESPA), these French Airmen, experts in NRBC defense, deployed alongside their counterparts from 18 NATO member nations, as part of this major training. Orchestrated by the Danish Armed Forces (Danish Defence), this major exercise of the Alliance, centered on advice, command and control (command and control – C2) in the NRBC field, mobilizes more than 400 specialized “NRBC PC” operators. Among the countries involved, Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, the United States, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Romania, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands and Slovenia, responded present at this 47th edition.
S’entraîner et tester la chaîne C2
Experts in the field of fire and rescue as well as in that of CBRN, Air firefighters regularly take care to maintain their skills in the field, training in command and conduct of operations via the C2 not being left out. “The objective for the French detachment is to train us in crisis management of NRBC incidents in an inter-allied environment to improve our level of interoperability, and this, in a high-intensity context.†The Airmen present here have considerable experience in the field and of NRBC work. What we are looking for here is C2 work with higher level skills“ delivers Commander Cyril, director of the exercise of the tricolor detachment.
Distributed within several NRBC cells on the Danish military influence, the Air firefighters will train this week in an alert system structured between different levels of command, allowing the collection and reporting of information according to national and inter-allied procedures. New in this edition, France plays the role of framework nation for the first time by occupying the place of interallied coordinator in NRBC management within theArea Control Center (ACC), a cell which supervises all reported incidents, alongside Germany.
With around fifteen scenarios of all kinds played out per day, ranging from the spreading of chemical materials to radiological attacks through the spread of a virus, the objective is to treat and neutralize the entire spectrum of NRBC threats through the prism of C2.
