Students from the Military Institute of Engineering (IME) visits CCOPAB
Fifty-three students of the sophomore year from the IME Graduate Course, accompanied by Capt Monteiro and 1st LT Melquíades, visited the Brazilian Peacekeeping Operations Joint Center on March 20, 2012. They were received by Lieutenant Commander Odimar Gomes Leite, Deputy Commander of the Center. At this opportunity, 1st LT Maurício Dias Lopes Valdetaro, instructor of the Individual Missions Subsection, gave a lecture in the auditorium of the Cultural Facility Sergio Vieira de Mello. The lecture was on: Peace Operations/ CCOPAB and the performance of the Military Engineer in Peace Operations.
The Advanced Pre-Deployment Drill (acronym in Portuguese: EAOP) for the 16th Peacekeeping Contingent (BRABAT 2) started on March 11 in the city of Palhoça and ended on March 16. With the presence of the Drill Director, Major General BRASIL (Commander of 14th Motorized Infantry Brigade), EAOP enabled the integration of military, civilian and police personnel and successfully ended the preparation of BRABAT 2 contingent before going to Haiti in the first semester of this year. The Drill was coordinated by the Brazilian Peacekeeping Operations Joint Center.
Captain Herbert, from the Contingent Section, and Captain Shoji, from the Civil Affairs Section, both instructors at the Brazilian Peacekeeping Operations Joint Center, took a course on UN Civil Military Coordination from March 04 to 09, 2012 in Miami – FL. The course was conducted by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs with support of the US SOUTHCOM.
On March 15, 2012, the Brazilian Peacekeeping Operations Joint Center (CCOPAB) was visited by Mr. Andrew Falconer, representative of the UK Ministry of Defense for issues related to South America and the Caribbean.
On March 2, 2012, CCOPAB held the joining ceremony of the 2012 Variable Contingent. The Center hosted 31 new soldiers from Rio and the surrounding cities to do military service, which is mandatory in Brazil. The Commander of the Brazilian Peacekeeping Operations Joint Center spoke to the new soldiers and their families and enhanced the importance of their joining the Brazilian Army and the noble mission they will render the country from that day on.
On March 1st, 2005, Directive no. 090 was issued on February 23 of the same year by the Commander of the Brazilian Army in order to create the Brazilian Peacekeeping Operations Training Center (acronym in Portuguese: CIOpPaz). 