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Patrick Gauchat

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Patrick Gauchat (22 May 1968) is a Swiss General Officer.[1] He is the first Swiss to lead a UN Mission.[2]

Military career

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Training and first command

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Promotions[1]

After training, Gauchat took command of a mountain fusilier company (1997).

Service as a staff officer

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As a staff officer, he performed various commanding duties, including commander of a mountain infantry battalion (from 2006), deputy commander of the Tenth Mountain Infantry Brigade 10 (2014–2015)[3] and deputy commander of Territorial Division 1 (2016–2017).[3]

Service in the rank of general

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In 2017, he was appointed head of the Swiss delegation to the Neutral Monitoring Commission for the Armistice between the Two Koreas (NNSC).

Overseas assignments

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Private life

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Gauchat holds and engineering degree from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne[1][3] and is fluent in German, English, French, and Spanish.[3]

References

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