Lieutenant Colonel Roberto Fernández Blanco is a Battalion Commander in the Spanish Mountain Troops, former Chief of the Training Branch at Mountain Troops Command Headquarters, and National OPR for Exercise Cold Response 2026. During Exercise, he served within NORA Brigade South G3, contributing to the planning and conduct of the exercise. Following CORE26, he was involved in collecting and consolidating lessons identified, providing him with both command and operational experience relevant to the adaptation of mountain forces to Arctic conditions.