The course is being held as part of preparations for deployment as an Air Advisor Team with the NATO-led ISAF mission in Afghanistan. It was preceded by a week-long training course in Ostrava in the Czech Republic.
The pre-deployment training course was jointly designed by Croatian and Czech teams with the advisory support of the United States, and is being implemented as part of NATO's Smart Defence initiative. The course commander is the Croatian Air Force pilot, Colonel Michael Krizanec.