To thank you for visiting our redesigned web pages we prepared a surprise for you: the first hundred people** who send an e-mail to igra.osrh@morh.hr will receive free poster of the officers ranks. You can see the poster if you click on "Usporedni činovi" link on the home page. All you have to do is to send a message with your name, address and phone number and a 100x70 cm poster will be sent to you. That s not all. We also started a promotion campaign: if you want to receive binoculars*, compasses, books, pins, mugs or similar paraphernalia, if your wish is to ride in a tank, helicopter, cruise on a warship, shoot at a military shooting range, or if you would like to meet the Chief of General Staff in his office, stay tuned with our campaign. Every week a new question will be asked. Your job will be to answer the questions correctly and ten lucky winners will be chosen at the end of the month.

As we said, stay on-line with our page. There are more surprises to come!

Good luck!

Today, June 3, a delegation of the Hungarian Armed Forces headed by Lieutenant General Zoltan Szenes came on a two-day visit to the Croatian Armed Forces.
After good relationships between the two countries had been confirmed, the talks about military education and training, regional cooperation, and peace support operations were conducted.
Lieutenant General Zoltan Szenes, Hungarian Chief of General Staff and Chief of Hungarian Home Guard, shared with his Croatian hosts positive and negative experience of the Hungarian approach to NATO.

On Monday, October 4, 2004, the Chief of General Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces, General Josip Lucić, received the Hungarian Military Bishop Dr. Tamas Szabo, who had visited the Military Ordinariate the day before, and had also participated in the 12th Military Pilgrimage to the national shrine Marija Bistrica. Besides the Hungarian Military Bishop, the Croatian Military Ordinary, Monsignor Juraj Jezerinac, and the General Vicar of the Military Ordinariate, Monsignor Josip Šantić attended the reception. At the end of the meeting, General Lucić presented Dr. Szabo with the gold plaque of the General Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces.

Twelfth traditional pilgrimage of the Croatian military and police to the national shrine Marija Bistrica was held the first Sunday in October (October 3, 2004). Several thousands pilgrims from all units and commands of the Croatian Armed Forces, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior, Croatian Firefighters’ Association, Historical Military Units Association and civilian pilgrims participated in the Eucharist led by Monsignor Juraj Jezerinac, Croatian Military Ordinary. The Minister of Defense, Mr. Berislav Rončević participated in the pilgrimage and attended the Mass, together with the Minister of Interior, Mr. Marijan Mlinarić and the Chief of General Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces, General Josip Lucić.