Rear Admiral Grytting to Washington
Rear Admiral Trond Grytting has for several years been the key officer in charge of the Norwegian-Russian military contacts in the north.
Last Friday, Rear Admiral Grytting was appointed to the position as Defense Attaché at the Norwegian Embassy in Washington DC.
Today, Grytting is Deputy Chief of Norway’s military operational headquarters in Bodø, Northern Norway.
For the last years, Rear Admiral Grytting has been very active building the current good relations between military officials in Norway and Northwest-Russia, including Norway’s relations with the Russian Northern fleet.
Grytting has been to both Murmansk and fleet headquarter Severomorsk on several occasions, heading Norwegian delegations discussing bi-lateral military cooperation between the two countries, but also onboard Norwegian naval-, and Coast Guard vessels visiting the Kola Peninsula.
BarentsObserver reported about the last Norwegian Coast Guard visit to Murmansk in September last year.
Together with the Norwegian commanding officer General Bernt Iver Ferdinand Brovold, Read Admiral Trond Grytting received Commander of Russia’s Northern Fleet Vice Admiral Nikolay Maksimov on his first official visit to Norway last fall, as reported by BarentsObserver.
As the head of the Regional Command in Northern Norway, Grytting was also in charge of the Norwegian military guards on the border to Russia. Twice a year, Rear Admiral Grytting has headed the Norwegian delegation in the meeting with FSB’s Border Guard Service of the Murmansk Region. The last such meeting was in Kirkenes in February this year, when newly appointed Commanding officer of the Border Guard Service in Murmansk General Sergey Kudryashov visited Norway for the first time as reported by BarentsObserver.
Also on Friday, Colonel Tom Nesse was appointed to the position as Defense Attaché at the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow.
