Major Kris Hjalmarson served a six-month tour in Pristina, Kosovo as the theatre CHIEF INFOSEC for NATO Kosovo Forces (KFOR) overseeing network security for 1200 computers on three networks in a 29 nation (including Partnership-for-Peace) multinational environment. This deployed position is open to Majors in the SIGS and CELE communities, and requires significant pre-deployment training at the NATO CIS School in Latina, Italy.

On 27 September, Maj Hjalmarson received the Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal and the NATO Non-Article 5 medal for the Balkans for his part of CAF’s OP KOBOLD.