The decision was announced by the Minister of Defence, Grete Faremo, shortly after the cabinet session the same day.

According to the Minister of Defence, Cmdr Bolle performed "above and beyond the call of duty" on numerous occasions during this period, his leadership was described as "exemplary".

[3] He and three other former members of E14 (an intelligence organization), smuggled the two children of Khalid Skah and Cecilie Hopstock out of Morocco, in 2009.

[4] Commander Trond André Bolle was killed on 27 June 2010, in an IED incident in Afghanistan's Faryab province.

Three other ISAF-soldiers from Norway were also[5] killed in the incident, which happened on the road between Khwaja Gawhar and Almar Bazar.