Journal articles on the topic 'Infantry Training Brigade'

There is a general operation algorithm of officials of mechanized (mechanized infantry, mountain assault) brigades by NATO standards in military publications concerning the military decision-making process of battle (action) planning by these brigades of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) without determination of the operation algorithm of the Chief of the Rear - Deputy Chief of logistics. To achieve the goal, it was applied the method of comparative analysis of normative documents' requirements concerning the military decision-making process of combat (action) planning according to NATO standards and the operation algorithm of the Chief of logistics when preparing a combined arms combat brigade of the Land Forces of the AFU for combat (action). In addition, the synthesis method for developing the algorithm of the Chief of the Rear - Deputy Chief of brigade logistics for planning of logistics units’ application (by logistics services) was used. Development of operation algorithm of the Chief of the Rear - Deputy Chief of logistics for planning the use of logistics units (by logistics services) when preparing the combined arms brigade of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for combat (actions) was based on seven stages of the military decision-making process for planning combat (actions) by NATO standards taking into account the requirements of the Field Manual "Logistics of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" (tactical level). Theoretical significance of the article consists in the development of the specified algorithm. The practical significance is in the possibility of application of this algorithm in the training of the combined arms brigade of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for combat (actions), as well as in the educational process of Odesa Military Academy specialists of the rear services. Keywords: algorithm, analysis, combat, options of action, task, approval, obtaining, planning and directive documents, comparison, operation, development.

UK Exercise SAIF SAREEA 3 saw components of first Armoured Infantry Brigade conduct kinetic armoured infantry manoeuvres in Oman in temperatures that at times exceeded 50°C. This paper presents the methods of acclimatisation, recreational physical training in the heat, and reacclimatisation training conducted in theatre during this exercise. In order to reduce the risk of heat illness, individuals underwent either validated heat acclimatisation training in accordance with current policy, or adapted training as dictated by musculoskeletal restrictions or job specification. Direction was issued regarding recreational training. There was a theatre medical consensus agreed for the practice of returning soldiers to the exercise after admission to a medical treatment facility due to the effects of heat and data were collated on all LAND (Army) acclimatisation and heat illness presentations. The rates of climatic effect were much lower than expected in the medical estimate based on Exercise SAIF SAREEA 2 and similar exercises. Only five LAND patients fulfilled the in-theatre case definition of exertional heat illness of a deployed LAND forces population at risk of 2550. Zero patients who were returned to the exercise after symptoms associated with climatic exposure were subsequently readmitted with heat illness.

The reviewed collection of documents is timed to the 80th anniversary of the formation of the 75th Stalin Volunteer Independent Infantry Brigade of the Omsk Siberians. The authors-compilers have conducted painstaking research in order to identify documents in the archival fonds. The collection contains five sections related to the following main thematic areas: formation of the Omsk volunteers and their way to the field army; their participation in the hostilities at the Kalinin front and their reformation into a guards division; unity between front and home front; veterans’ memoirs; historical memory. Relevance of the reviewed documents collection is determined not only by the high interest of the contemporary Russian society in the events of the Great Patriotic War, but also by the conditions of the special military operation in Ukraine in 2022-23, by the fact that the Russian Federation is now partially mobilized and, as 80 years ago, the former territory of military camps “Cheremushki,” where the Omsk Institute of Armored Vehicle Engineering is now stationed, has once again became training ground for the armed forces of our state. The book is supplemented with a synoptical scientific article by the famous scholar, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor A. V. Sushko, a list of abbreviations, geographical and name indexes, which greatly facilitate the readers’ work. The uniqueness of the collection is due to engaging documents that provide a comprehensive picture of the insufficiently studied mass heroism of the Omsk Siberians in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. The structure of the book is logical, falling in line with this particular type of publication. The publication is preceded by a detailed introduction substantiating its scientific significance, describing the state of the scholarship on the brigade history, and providing a brief source studies description of the materials thus introduced into scientific use. The history of the 75th Stalin Volunteer Independent Infantry Brigade of the Omsk Siberians, as revealed by the team of authors-compilers, has many “white spots” and has been studied insufficiently. The reader, acquainted with the published materials, becomes aware of the lack of the brigade history written on modern theoretical and methodological level, using available archival documents. The reviewer notes disproportionately small (in relation to the total mass of published documents) amount of materials from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, where there is a significant collection of sources on the 75th Brigade’s participation in combat operations at the front. This observation applies to the second section of the collection, in which documents of the military counterintelligence bodies prevail. The publication would have benefited, if the authors had set apart the documents of the special services, forming a separate section, and prepared an additional section on combat operations of the brigade on the basis of documents from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Aim: In this research, the effect of the training given to the senior soldiers on the level of knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases was investigated. Methods: This research, which is planned as an experimental type with no control group, was conducted between March and April 2020 with the soldiers working in the 12th Mechanized Infantry Brigade Command located in the city center of Ağrı. Results: The pre-test of the soldiers of the rankings was a total score average of 11.66 ± 4.18, and the level of knowledge was low. The total score average of the post-test Sex Level for the Sexually Transmitted Disease of the ranking soldiers was 16.261 ± 3.78 and the level of knowledge was found to be high. A statistically significant difference was found between the total score averages of the pre-test-post-test Sexually Transmitted Disease Level of rank soldiers (p <0.05). Conclusion: It has been determined that the training given to senior soldiers increases the level of knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases, which is low. It is recommended to work in larger groups. Keywords: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Education, Rank Soldier.

Indirect fire is a domain of artillery. Tanks due to their combat capabilities (mobility, hit resistance and accuracy of fire) were hardly used for such type of tasks, although being prepared from constructional point of view. Nevertheless, evaluation of a concept of tanks utilization in a battlefield frequently oscillated around a support of infantry or just operation support. Closing down and ceasing development of artillery units as a result of the Polish Armed Forces’ transformation led to a situation under which the lack of an adequately intensive artillery fire significantly affecting support of first echelon units can be faced during real operations. For this reason, the General Command of Branches of Armed Forces bearing in mind tanks’ capability of fulfilling the aforementioned task decided to reactivate the competence of indirect fire by tanks’ crews, especially because the execution of this task was terminated at the beginning of the 1990s. The article presents the analysis of documents in force related to conducting indirect fire by a tank subunit and characteristics of individual undertakings required for preparation of a subunit to fulfil above-mentioned tasks based on the experience gained by a tank battalion of the 15th Mechanized Brigade in Giżycko, as well as realization of numerous organizational projects necessary for shooting preparation and fire control execution during fulfillment of this type of fire tasks. Results of practical indirect fire execution by tanks lead to constructive observations referred to achieving high results of an accurate indirect fire by tanks and implementing changes in documents which normalize training and shooting processes, adjusting an organizational portion of the project to the current organizational structures of tank and artillery subunits and to correlations resulting from this fact. The article also inclines to discussion regarding the direction of changes indispensable for conducting the indirect fire by tanks and the rationale of the execution of these tasks in a contemporary battlefield.

The annexation of Crimea in 2014 marks the turning point in Lithuania’s defence policy. Previously, Lithuanian armed forces developed expeditionary capabilities in line with NATO’s out-of-area requirements and had to face substantial manning and equipment shortages as a result of the financial crisis. After 2014 clarion call, Lithuania responded with the most comprehensive measures of all the Eastern Flank states to strengthen its military capabilities. Lithuania’s main strategic concerns encompass both the Russian A2/AD bubble in Kaliningrad as well as the development of Russian offensive capabilities in the Baltic Sea region. The Lithuanian strive for security included a big hike in defence spending and a gradual increase in military personnel, with the reinstatement of conscription, faster modernisation of armed forces, development of military infrastructures, investments in combat readiness and an update of military exercises. This was supplemented by the strengthening of defence co-operation with key partners – both bilaterally and within the NATO framework. Lithuania’s main goal was to convince Allies to establish permanent military presence on its territory in order to strengthen deterrence against Russia. Between the NATO Wales Summit in 2014 and the Warsaw Summit in 2016, Lithuania was focused mainly on a closer military collaboration with the US – a country which then took a leading role in the military reassurance of the Eastern Flank. In Lithuania, the US has traditionally been perceived as the main security provider. The Warsaw Summit constituted a milestone in bolstering the Allied defence posture vis-à-vis Russia, which influenced Lithuania’s defence policy. American rotational company-size units in the Baltic states were subsequently replaced by NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence, i.e. the deployment of German-led battalion-size battlegroup in Lithuania. Therefore, between 2016 and 2018 Lithuania tried to augment its strong defence ties with US while deepening military integration with Germany. The most significant sign of a closer military co-operation with Germany was the procurement of 88 Boxer infantry fighting vehicles. Recently, Germany has become the biggest supplier of military equipment to the Lithuanian army. Although Lithuania prefers to develop military co-operation primarily with US and Germany, Poland remains its important orientation point (mainly due to a similar threat perception and Poland’s geographic location). The core dimensions of the Polish-Lithuanian defence collaboration are the strengthening of air defence, including Grom systems deliveries, training of special forces and development of the trilateral brigade (LITPOLUKRBRIG) together with Ukraine. In the coming years, the ongoing depopulation will remain the biggest internal challenge for the Lithuanian defence policy. Emigration and an ageing society result not only in a decreasing number of citizens reaching the enlistment age, but may also adversely affect the economic situation and - as a consequence - defence expenditure.

The fighting on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915 was primarily a clash of masses of infantry. The limited area controlled by the allies and difficult terrain basically prevented the effective use of cavalry. Nevertheless, after a few weeks, the first cavalry units landed on the peninsula. Over the following months, their number systematically grew. At its peak, the composition of the British forces included as many as 15 horse brigades. Armament, equipment, and above all, the principles of training allowed it to fight in the same way as infantry. It was used to man field fortifications at the front or to strengthen the most weakened infantry divisions. Sending horse formations to the peninsula was irrational. Using such formations as infantry deprived them of their main advantage, which was mobility. What's more, positional fighting caused significant losses, even in a situation of relative calm on the front. In addition, problems with provisions and hygiene caused increasing non-combat losses. In the fall, these problems only increased. The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Command was aware of these problems. It even attempted to obtain additional infantry units from Egypt to replace the cavalry on the peninsula. Unfortunately, personal animosities, competition and lack of strategic thinking meant that these intentions were not implemented.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to look at the effect of additional individual physical training (PT) in addition to mandatory unit PT as well as other risk factors on physical fitness. Design: A cross-sectional design. Setting: This study was conducted on a US military installation. Participants: Participants were 6290 male and 558 female active duty US Army soldiers in 3 light infantry brigades. Measures: Participants completed self-administered questionnaires asking about individual characteristics, PT, and physical fitness. Cut points were established for soldiers scoring within the top 33% for each of the 3 Army Physical Fitness Test events (2-mile run, sit-ups, and push-ups) and top 50% in each of the tests combined for overall performance. Analysis: Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals from multivariate analyses were calculated. Results: Variables impacting physical fitness performance of men and women included increased body mass index, leading unit PT sessions, and individual distance running mileage. Other variables impacting physical performance for men included increased age, smoking, and individual resistance training. Conclusion: Soldiers performing additional individual PT demonstrated a positive influence on fitness compared to unit PT participation alone. Increased age and being overweight/obese negatively influenced physical fitness. To enhance fitness performance through unit PT, running by ability groups and resistance training should be encouraged by leadership.

By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet armed forces were no match in overall power terms to the fully mobilized Wehrmacht, but in terms of the number of major weapons they surpassed it. By the summer of 1941, they totaled 5.7 million people. Ground troops of the Red Army included 303 Division 3 separate rifle and 16 airborne brigades. However, all of them, except the cavalry, were in the process of reorganization and formation and were unprepared to repel aggression. Incompleteness of reforms and a number of other reasons, led from the first days of the war to serious losses in the ranks of the Red Army. To make up for the losses it was required to mobilize significant resources, a substantial part of which has been lost in the abandonment of the western Soviet territories. The situation at the front in the first month of military operations required to supply the army with new compounds. In view of the fact that the mobilization plan did not provide for the formation of new compounds, it had to solve the problem from scratch. In addition to organizing training it had to urgently address the issue of creation of new military units. The task has been assigned primarily to internal military districts, including the Siberian Military District. In general, during the Great Patriotic War in the Siberian Military District 4 tactical formations, 43 infantry and 6 cavalry divisions, 30 infantry, mortar and ski teams were formed. Many of them have distinguished themselves in battle and have been awarded orders and honorary titles Guard names.

"A significant turning point in relations between the Soviet Union and Romania was associated with the incorporation of Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina into the USSR, which took place in the context of Soviet-German rapprochement. To this end, the Soviet leadership developed a set of preparatory political-diplomatic and military-propaganda measures. Soviet political and diplomatic actions were based on fundamental military preparations. In order to prepare and further joining Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina to the USSR, the Southern Front was created on the basis of the Kyiv Special and Odessa military districts. Army General Georgy Zhukov was appointed as a commander. The General Staff of the Red Army developed two variants of actions by Soviet troops. The first one provided for measures in case the Romanian government would not agree to the peaceful transfer of Bessarabia and Bukovina to the USSR. The second variant was an action plan in case of a voluntary retreat of Romanian troops west of the Prut. The first option was taken as the base. As early as June 26, 1940, on the border with Romania, the Soviet command concentrated 32 infantry, 2 motorized infantry, 6 cavalry divisions, 11 tank, 3 airborne brigades, 16 artillery regiments of the commander-in-chief’s reserve, 14 corps artillery regiments and 4 separate artillery divisions. In the main areas of the offensive, more than a triple advantage in manpower and means was provided. At the same time, for the purpose of ideological support, a huge propaganda apparatus was prepared to work with the population. In accordance with the Directive of the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army № 0140 (June 21, 1940), a large number of political workers were sent to the disposal of the Southern Front. One month before the start of the military operation, all employees of party and Soviet organizations were considered as mobilized. After appropriate training, they were ready for further activities as editorial staff, propagandists and agitators. Concert brigades and drama theatre groups were organized for the cultural service of the population. There were selected mobile library, gramophone records, and films. Book-mobile was arranged; everything necessary for the publication in Romanian newspaper was completed and provided with everything necessary. Due to the diligence of all these preparatory acts, the territories of Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina were occupied by the Red Army according to all the rules of military art (all elements of military operation were used: military force, local military pressure, military intelligence and counterintelligence, agitation and propaganda), thanks to which the USSR could reach its purpose. "

Donald Darrow Matson made seminal contributions to the field of pediatric neurosurgery. Born in 1913 in Fort Hamilton, New York, Matson was the youngest of four sons of an army colonel. He graduated from Cornell University and, years later, from Harvard Medical School. Matson selected Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for his neurosurgical training, which was interrupted during World War II. As a neurosurgeon, he worked close to the front lines under Brigadier General Elliot Cutler in Europe, earning a Bronze Star. Matson returned to Boston to become Franc Ingraham’s fellow and partner. He was a masterful surgeon and, with Ingraham, published Neurosurgery of Infancy and Childhood in 1954, the first pediatric neurosurgery textbook in the world. Upon Ingraham’s retirement, Matson became chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Boston Children’s Hospital and Peter Bent Brigham. In 1968, he became the inaugural Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurological Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Among his neurosurgical accomplishments, Matson served as President of the Harvey Cushing Society, later known as the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He was unable to preside at the 1969 meeting that marked the 100th anniversary of Cushing’s birth, having contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Matson died at the age of 55, surviving his mentor Ingraham by only 4 years.

The text proposes to report a teacher training experience with the Proesde/Educational Degree (Higher Education Program for the Regional Development of the State of Santa Catarina), linked to the Regional University of Blumenau - FURB. In 2018, this program sought to qualify undergraduate students to work in front of the BNCC (Common National Curricular Base), configured as a public policy for standardizing the national curriculum. Within the planned training program, a meeting had been provided that covered other flows of the hitherto instituted and discussed about BNCC, problematizing the curriculum through the post-critical epistemological bias, which interprets it as being a field of disputes for the meaning of what comes curriculum and how it should operate in the school institution. This perspective understands that political decisions are determined by discourses of truth that crystallize common and totalitarian norms that deserve to be questioned, giving rise to the antagonisms of what was sedimented as a result of a choice/act of power. Thus, the BNCC doubts its own legitimacy in the current social-political-economic context. The objective of this training meeting was to discuss, with the undergraduate students, through texts and videos, the contingencies and flows of the BNCC, defending the idea of a curriculum policy without foundation to be able, from there, to think about possibilities of other curricula, less hegemonic, normatized, unequal, excluding, assisted by the idea of minor education. The result of such a discussion crystallized in the activity of writing and rewriting a cloud of words throughout the formation, in which the Base went from a set of statements to a set of uncertainties and questions.ResumoO texto propõe relatar uma experiência de formação docente junto ao Proesde/Licenciatura (Programa de Educação Superior para o Desenvolvimento Regional do Estado de Santa Catarina), vinculado à Universidade Regional de Blumenau – FURB. No ano 2018, tal programa buscou qualificar os estudantes de licenciatura para atuarem frente à BNCC (Base Nacional Comum Curricular), configurada como sendo uma política pública de padronização do currículo nacional. Dentro do programa previsto de formação, foi proporcionado um encontro que percorresse outros fluxos do até então instituído e discursado sobre a BNCC, problematizando o currículo através do viés epistemológico pós-crítico, que o interpreta como sendo um campo de disputas pela significação do que vem a ser currículo e como ele deve operar na instituição escolar. Essa perspectiva entende que as decisões políticas são determinadas por discursos de verdade que cristalizam normas comuns e totalitárias que merecem ser questionadas, fazendo emergir os antagonismos daquilo que foi sedimentado em decorrência de uma escolha/ato de poder. Assim, a BNCC coloca em dúvida sua própria legitimidade no contexto social-político-econômico atual. Objetivou-se nesse encontro de formação discutir, junto aos licenciandos, através de textos e vídeos, as contingências e os fluxos da BNCC, defendendo a ideia de uma política curricular sem fundamentos para poder, a partir daí, pensar possibilidades de currículos-outros, menos hegemônicos, normatizados, desiguais, excludentes, assistidos pela ideia de educação menor. O resultado proveniente de tal discussão cristalizou-se na atividade de escrita e reescrita de uma nuvem de palavras ao longo da formação, na qual a Base passou de um conjunto de afirmações para um conjunto de incertezas e interrogações.Palavras-chave: BNCC, Currículo, Formação docente, Políticas educacionais.Keywords: Curriculum, Teacher training, Educational policies.ReferencesA LINGUA das mariposas (La lengua de las mariposas, original). Direção: José Luis Cuerda. Elenco: Manuel Lozano, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Uxía Blanco, outros. Roteiro: José Luis Cuerda, Manuel Rivas, Rafael Azcona. Produção: Canal+ España. 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Indirect fire is a domain of artillery. Tanks due to their combat capabilities (mobility, hit resistance and accuracy of fire) were hardly used for such type of tasks, although being prepared from constructional point of view. Nevertheless, evaluation of a concept of tanks utilization in a battlefield frequently oscillated around a support of infantry or just operation support. Closing down and ceasing development of artillery units as a result of the Polish Armed Forces’ transformation led to a situation under which the lack of an adequately intensive artillery fire significantly affecting support of first echelon units can be faced during real operations. For this reason, the General Command of Branches of Armed Forces bearing in mind tanks’ capability of fulfilling the aforementioned task decided to reactivate the competence of indirect fire by tanks’ crews, especially because the execution of this task was terminated at the beginning of the 1990s. The article presents the analysis of documents in force related to conducting indirect fire by a tank subunit and characteristics of individual undertakings required for preparation of a subunit to fulfil above-mentioned tasks based on the experience gained by a tank battalion of the 15th Mechanized Brigade in Giżycko, as well as realization of numerous organizational projects necessary for shooting preparation and fire control execution during fulfillment of this type of fire tasks. Results of practical indirect fire execution by tanks lead to constructive observations referred to achieving high results of an accurate indirect fire by tanks and implementing changes in documents which normalize training and shooting processes, adjusting an organizational portion of the project to the current organizational structures of tank and artillery subunits and to correlations resulting from this fact. The article also inclines to discussion regarding the direction of changes indispensable for conducting the indirect fire by tanks and the rationale of the execution of these tasks in a contemporary battlefield.