Luxembourg Army contingent in Kosovo (KFOR) pictures

[Luxembourger]

Hi I have found those pcitures on a homepage of a soldier of my country who is deployed over there . I don t know him personaly but his pictures are cool and might be interesting for you guys if you want to get a look on how the Luxembourg Army looks like :D
Our Army is very small ( about 1000 soldiers) for a population of 450 000.
But we always send troops to peacekeeping missions Bonsia , kosovo and now Afghanistan.


http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album10/images/Album10%20(17)_JPG.jpg

http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album9/images/Album9%20(18)_JPG.jpg

http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album9/images/Album9%20(15)_JPG.jpg

http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album9/images/Album9%20(04)_JPG.jpg

http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album9/images/Album9%20(46)_JPG.jpg

http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album9/images/Album9%20(47)_JPG.jpg

http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album9/images/Album9%20(48)_JPG.jpg

http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album9/images/Album9%20(59)_JPG.jpg

http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album9/images/Album9%20(64)_JPG.jpg

http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album9/images/Album9%20(62)_JPG.jpg

http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album9/images/Album9%20(90)_JPG.jpg

http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album7/images/Album7%20(28)_JPG.jpg

http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album10/images/Album10%20(20)_JPG.jpg


http://www.fons.lu/Biller/FotoAlbumen%20KOSOVO/Album7/images/Album7%20(47)_JPG.jpg


want to see whole collection go to
http://www.fons.lu/Html/Index%20Fotoen%20KFOR.htm

[UkrainianAmerican]

Nice pics! woot

[Marmot1]

:lol: 1000 in army and on one photo there are 10 of them so basicaly on one photo there is 1% of your army woot

cool photos from cool smal coutry :hug:

[Luxembourger]

1000 in army and on one photo there are 10 of them so basicaly on one photo there is 1% of your army

yeah that s right :-) :hug:
but there are about 40 in kosovo
and ten in Kabul guarding Bagram air base

[Skullknight]

Nice pics. Thanks for them.

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for a small army they aren't doing to badly.

[TALOS]

I will preface this by saying that this is a compliment not a shot, those guys are the most relaxed and friendly looking soldiers I've ever seen. They look casual and at ease in every pic, thats the army I wanna join.
Great pics :D

[UkrainianSpetsnaz]

Hi Luxembourger. Thank you! :)

I mean no offence... but how long would it take you to walk accross Luxembourg? :hug:

[seventy6er]

Hi Luxembourger,

how many Luxembourgers speak German? Dou you have German as a foreign language? (Always wondered, cause I met some L: and they all spoke German fluently).

[Marmot1]

40+10 OMG 5% of army on foreign missions!!! cool in poland it's like 3% on mision and 3% preparing for mission

[Luxembourger]

how many Luxembourgers speak German? Dou you have German as a foreign language? (Always wondered, cause I met some L: and they all spoke German fluently).

Ok you are being teached german and french ( because they are our neighbour countries) since the year of 5 and all your school tests will be in German language and french language . From primary school , to high school and from high school to universitiy all exams are in german and french, and the courses are too in german and french. English is only being taught during the high school years and only in Enlgish classes you speak and write english during exams while all other classes biology , chemistry geography , history maths are all in gemran or french.

Why do we have to learn those languages form childhood on ?
1) because we live between Belgium FRance and Germany
2) about 120 000 french people come to work to Luxembourg every day
and about 50 000 Germans,,,and belgians-
3) if you go to a store to buy stuff iin most cases you got to speak french , as the staff of the stores are mostly foreign workers.

WE do have out own mother language which is a mix between german and french but we don t use it quite often to write . Our national newspapers are all in german . Our TV is in luxemburgish language :-)


Oh yeah one thing : many foreigners come also to luxembourg because our gas is the most cheap in western europe p-)

[Alpha Leader]

Nice pictures
looks like they are doing a good job
on the humanitarian side also.
:hug:

[Luxembourger]

I mean no offence... but how long would it take you to walk accross Luxembourg?


Luxembourg is the sixth-smallest country and the only Grand Duchy in the world.
The country is 84 km (51 miles) long and 52 km (32 miles) wide, encompassing an area of 2586 square kilometres (999 square miles) with a population of 435 700 inhabitants (official estimate Jan 1, 2000) comprising the highest proportion of inhabitants with a foreign passport among the EU countries.


Here some stuff for people who like movies, and histroy-

-GEneral Patton is buried at American WW2 Cemetery Luxembourg with 5000 soliders


-Flag Day in the USA became established through a person whose father came from Luxembourg.
Bernard J. Zigrand & the Flag Day
1777 Jun 14 Congress defined the layout of the US flag
1831 Nicholas Cigrand (Bernard's father) was born in Luxembourg
1852 Nicholas Cigrand arrived in New York, worked as a blacksmith and wagonmaker
1866 Oct 1 - Bernard J. Zigrand born in Waubeka
1885 Jun 14 - first recognized observance of the flag birthday
1916 Jun 14 - President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the national observance of Flag Day


-There are large communities of ex-Luxembourgers living in America (eg the village of "Rolling Stone" was funded by emigrants from the Luxembourg village of "Rollingergrund")


-The 1997 movie "American Werewolf in Paris" was filmed in Luxembourg


woot

[Dave the Dawg]

More fun facts: I got into a car accident in Luxembourg once.

Lëtzebuergesch is a German dialect, and can be understood by Germans with some difficulty (kind of like an American trying to understand a Cockney-speaker). If you want to hear what it sounds like, several Luxembourg radio stations have web radio. A bunch of links can be found here: http://www.restena.lu/centredelangues/page5/html/p5lux/l%EBtz%20Internets%E4it/e%20puer%20l%EBtzebuergesch%20Internets%E4iten.htm.html

There are a few pictures of the Luxembourg ISAF contingent on the Belgian ISAF pages, but you can't link directly to the pictures. Here are the links to the image pages though:

http://www.mil.be/isaf/gallery.asp?LAN=F&ID=11649
http://www.mil.be/isaf/gallery.asp?LAN=F&ID=11650
http://www.mil.be/isaf/gallery.asp?LAN=F&ID=11651

[Luxembourger]

Thank you I checked the links and trieded to bring them up here

Were you stationed in Germany ( Ramstein, Bitburg ) that you came to visit lux? many Americans from Bitburg facilites come during the weekends to our pubs and shopping malls.


Lux soldiers in Kabul
noticee the Bdus , they are wearing not their own lux bdus which are american bdus as you can see on the pics above. On these pictures they are wearing the belgian Bdus but with the Lux patch and isaf shoulder patches

http://www.mil.be/isaf/view_gall_large.asp?ID=11649

http://www.mil.be/isaf/view_gall_large.asp?ID=11651

[Ian H]

What equipment does your army use? I've spotted the AUG and the HMMWV, but do you have anything heavier, artillery, for example, or tracked vehicles? Thanks for any reply and for putting up the pics, they're very good.

[Luxembourger]

I found more lux-afghanistan pics on the main homepage of the lux army
here they are


Lux solider standing on the right next to a belgian wheeled APC...cannot identify what it is looks similar to a LAV.



http://www.armee.lu/gallery/popup/isaf2/im000091_k_pop.jpg

http://www.armee.lu/gallery/popup/isaf2/opa01k_pop.jpg

that s funny to see lux troops with beglian BDus and the Lux tag and patches sewed on it .

http://www.armee.lu/gallery/popup/isaf1/cimg0031_pop.jpg

lux soldiers maning the machine gun on top of belgian army truck
http://www.armee.lu/gallery/popup/isaf1/cimg0013_pop.jpg





equipment used : Steyr AUG 5.56 mm
Steyr AUG HB - HBAR 5.56 mm
Mitrailleuse .50 M2 HB
TOW
LAW (Light Antitank Weapon)

105mm howitzer

http://www.armee.lu/chap07/images/obusier.jpg

HMMWV s many version from ambulance to communication shelter hummers

MAN trucks for carry troops
http://www.armee.lu/chap07/images/man-2ac.jpg


night vision goggle types : [CLARA] - [OB-44] - [TN2-1] - [UA/1116]

concerning BDUs,,,again they use the amercian bdu style.....but not used in Afghanistan. The Helmets are american too .

[Dave the Dawg]

The entire Luxembourg Army (Lëtzebuerger Arméi) is less than a battalion. It consists of: Company A, with two recon platoons and one antitank platoon; Company B, which runs the Army School (l'École de l'Armée); Company CI, the Compagnie Commandement et Instruction; and Company D, the LU RECCE COY (Luxembourg Reconnaissance Company), also with with two recon platoons and one antitank platoon.

Weapons are the Browning Hi-Power pistol, the Steyr AUG assault rifle, the Steyr AUG HB light machine gun/SAW, the Mitrailleuse .50 (M2 HB) heavy machine gun, the TOW antitank guided missile system, the LAW light antitank weapon and various hand grenades. The heaviest weapon in the Luxembourg arsenal is the 105mm howitzer pictured above, which is only used for ceremonial occasions.

The reconnaissance and TOW platoons use HMMWVs. They also have various Mercedes light trucks for ambulances and other duties, and a family of MAN trucks for heavier lift.

[Luxembourger]

yep that s the active army + reserve we are total 1000
:)

[Aegirsson]

I like history too.

_Ve S., Les germains passent le Rhin et se dirigent jusqu'au midi de la France. En 460, la capitale de Gratius en ces terriroires est finalement conquise: fin de la domination romaine.

_Ve S., des Francs et des Alamans s'établissent sur l'actuel Luxembourg.

_Les Francs sous Clovis, conquièrent la gaule entière en un trentaine d'années.

_Après Clovis, les Pippinides assurent l'expansion franque en arrêtant notamment les Arabes à Poitiers et en intégrant la Bourgogne et l'Aquitaine.

_Sous les carolingiens la pluspart du territoire francs comprenait le Luxembourg. Mais a la mort de Lothaire II, le Luxembourg est partagé entre Charles le chauve, et louis le germanique. En 880 la Lotharingie (Luxembourg) est ratachée à la Germanie.

_Wigéric, comte d'Ardenne et du Trévirois, est considéré comme le fondateur de la maison comtale de Luxembourg.

_Après de nombreux "changements de royaume", le Luxembourg (à l'époque un duché) est vendu à Philippe le bon, et fait donc désormais partit du Bourguignon.

_Au XVIe S., Charles Quint hérite du Luxembourg de par son père, et fait de celui ci une terre héréditaire espagnole.

_Au court du XVIe S., Le Luxembourg fut un enjeu décisif (par ses villes fortifiées: d'Arlon, Montmédy, Ivoix-Carignan et Thionville) entre la France et l'empire. Il finit, selon le traité de Crepy, entre les mains françaises.
Ce qui n'empecha pas Henri II de repasser a l'attaque.
Finalement, Suite à l'abdication de Charles Quint, son fils Philippe II signe le traité de Cateau-Cambrésis qui met fin aux guerres entre la France et les Habsbourgs.

_Pourtant, en 1566 les Pays-bas se soulèvent contre Philippe II et sa soeur (Marguerite de Parme, à qui il a confié le gouvernement du Luxembourg).
Le Luxembourg n'est pas directement concerné, mais la forteresse de Luxembourg est le point de ralliement des mercenaires engagés par Philippe II.

_En 1596, Henri IV s'étant engagé aux cotés des pays-bas, attaque la forteresse en vain.

_Philippe II, face à la résistance des insurgés, décide d'ériger les Pays-Bas, Luxembourg compris, en État indépendant qu'il attribue à sa fille Isabelle, épouse de l'archiduc Albert d'Autriche.

_Au XVIIe S., le Luxembourg retombe sous controle espagnol, La guerre reprend dès lors. La population luxembourgeoise est frappée par ailleurs par la peste qui décime les deux tiers de la population.

_La France déclare la guerre au roi d'Espagne et s'allie avec la Suède. Encore une fois, le Luxembourg sert de lieu de passage aux différentes troupes.

_Après plusieurs sièges, en 1684 la forteresse de Luxembourg finit par tomber sous "l'attaque" menée par Vauban, après cinq semaines de défense.

_1684-1698: première occupation française. Louis XIV s'attache à intégrer le duché à la France. Il installe au Luxembourg des familles françaises auxquelles il accorde des privilèges, notamment fiscaux.

_En janvier 1698, les soldats français évacuent Luxembourg qui repasse aux mains des espagnols.

_La mort de Charles II, dernier Habsbourg d'Espagne, en 1700, déclenche la guerre de succession d'Espagne. Louis XIV entraîne dans la guerre à ses côtés le gouverneur du Luxembourg, Maximilien-Emmanuel de Bavière, en lui promettant la souveraineté des Pays-Bas et du Luxembourg.
Les traités d'Utrecht et de Rastatt, en 1713-1714, mettent fin à la guerre.

_Charles IV de Habsbourg récupère le Luxembourg et les Pays-Bas.

_1795-1815: seconde occupation française.
L'arrivée au pouvoir de Bonaparte et le concordat ramènent la paix au Luxembourg.

_Le 11 mai 1867, le traité de Londres, accorde aux Luxembourgeois, leur autonomie le roi des Pays-Bas restant toutefois grand-duc de Luxembourg.


Good pictures.

[REMOV]

Lux solider standing on the right next to a belgian wheeled APC...cannot identify what it is looks similar to a LAV.It is Pandur APC.