The COM NCISG, Major General Schlösser, presented the NATO MSM to Lieutenant Colonel Alvaro Moreira Dos Santos (NCISG J4), in the presence of the NCISG DCOM/COS, Brigadier General Luigi Carpineto, the Deputy National Military Representative of Portugal to SHAPE, Colonel Arlindo Domingues, and colleagues from NCISG J4.
MSM ceremony, 24 Oct, 2022, from left: Major General Frank Schlösser, NCISG Commander; Lieutenant Colonel Alvaro Moreira Dos Santos; Colonel Arlindo Domingues, Deputy National Military Representative of Portugal to SHAPE.
The NCISG Commander thanked LTC Dos Santos for his service to NATO and NCISG, and wished him well in his new assignment in Portugal.
The NATO MSM is the highest international military award presented to members of NATO, who distinguished themselves by outstanding meritorious achievement of service to the Alliance.

MSM ceremony, 24 Oct, 2022, second on the left: Lieutenant Colonel Alvaro Moreira Dos Santos with colleagues from NCISG J4.