"First of all, you have to really want it because the training, both at the academy and later on, is very demanding and gruelling," Captain Kosmas Chalaris told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) when asked what it takes to be chosen as NATO's Best Warrior.

The two Greek commercial airline pilots who were caught up in the terrorist attack in Kabul’s Intercontinental hotel described to protothema.gr how close they came to death during the terrorist attack by four gunmen which killed 14 foreigners at in Afghanistan’s capital on Saturday.