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This paper proposes a cooperated mutual authentication scheme for mobile base stations (MBS) that construct a Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) in the Tactical Information Communication Networks (TICN). To enhance the fighting capabilities and survivability of soldiers in battlefields, it is crucial to secure the communication and commands between soldiers and commanders. To achieve this goal, a reliable mutual authentication method is required to approve between MBS and the soldiers in the network. We apply EAP-TLS (Extensible Authentication Protocol – Transport Layer Security) for mutual authentication between mobile base stations that each hold authentication servers [1]. Also, we propose a cooperative authentication scheme that can substitute the authentication process between MBS and ultimately reduce the authentication overhead. We evaluate the proposed scheme using the Qualnet 5.0 simulator to verify the performance of our proposed schemes in Tactical Networks.