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Contract-based military service
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The Ministry of Defense of Georgia continues recruiting for the Georgian Armed Forces and invites Georgian citizens to join the contract-based professional military service.
During four years military service, service personnel will receive high salaries, be provided with modern equipment, a good standard of food, enjoy free medical service, as well as social and legal guarantees.
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Andro Barnovi is appointed as Deputy Defense Minister
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The Georgian Minister of Defense has a new deputy. Andro Barnovi has been appointed Deputy Defense Minister. Until now this position has been vacant. Now Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia has four deputies. Currently Nodar Kharshiladze, Nika Dzimtseishvili, Andro Barnovi and Kakha Butskhrikidze are occupying these posts.
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Army in Euro Challenge
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The Georgian Ministry of Defense basketball team will take part in the Euro Challenge competition.
The FIBA Europe League has named 32 basketball teams that will compete in the Euro Challenge. During the first stage, the basketball teams will be divided into four-group teams. The leaders will get into the top sixteen that will compete in four-team groups. Those teams that occupy first and the second places in each group will play in the quarter final and the best four will play in the final four.
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Assembly-Distribution Center for Conscripts
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The renovated Assembly-Distribution Center for Conscripts was opened on July 21. The Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia, Mr. Ramaz Nikolaishvili, and Head of the Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces, Major-General Devi Chankotadze, opened the renovated building.
The new Assembly-Distribution Center for Conscripts meets European standards. It is equipped with modern medical equipment that enables doctors to carry out additional medical examinations of conscripts at the Center. The renovated center will serve more than 25, 000 conscripts a year in case of necessity.
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Sachkhere Mountain Training School
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The Deputy Defense Minister of Georgia, Nodar Kharshiladze, visited Sachkhere Mountain Training School on July12. Along with the Ambassador of France to Georgia, Erik Furnie, the Deputy Minister opened the PfP (Partnership for Peace) status board. Sachkhere Mountain Training School received PfP status several months ago. Thus, new standard training courses will be launched there in summer and autumn.
While visiting Sachkere Military base the guests were briefed on the development process and scheduled trainings at the school.
Under PfP status, the school will train the military units of NATO and its partner countries’ armed forces. In September, the instructors of Mountain Training School will conduct the mountain training basic summer course for the military servicemen of NATO countries. The central part of the course consists of the practical exercises. Its aim is to provide soldiers with basic mountaineering skills and enable them to master operating in a mountain environment. The exercise will be conducted in English and the students will be provided with the appropriate mountaineering equipment during training.
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Side by side: Reserve Marines and Georgian soldiers train together
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Author: Cpl. Nana Dannsaappiah published in DVIDSHUB.NET
Georgian soldiers can be found fighting alongside U.S. Marines on the frontlines of Afghanistan. But to ensure that both parties work well together on the battlefield practice conducted on the training grounds is required.
Marines from the Anti-Terrorism Battalion based in Rochester, N.Y., and the Black Sea Rotational Force 11, alongside soldiers from the Georgian 4th Infantry Brigade practiced Military Operations in an Urban Terrain (MOUT) during Exercise Agile Spirit 2011. Agile Spirit is designed to increase interoperability between the forces by exchanging and enhancing each country’s capacity in counterinsurgency (COIN) and peacekeeping (PKO) operations, including: small unit tactics, convoy operations and counter-improvised explosive device training.
“Because of our partnership in Afghanistan, and in order to work with us and support our mission, the [Georgian soldiers] have to be able to move and do what we do or at least understand it,” said Staff Sgt. Daniel Bauer, an infantryman with Black Sea Rotational Force 11 and an Elk Grove, Calif., native.
In Overseas Contingency Operations, Marines conduct COIN operations in which they encounter enemies holed-up in small towns and villages. The urban environment presents challenges to troop safety and mission accomplishment because the enemy has cover and concealment in the buildings in towns and villages.
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Open Day – “Agile Spirit 2011”
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On July 22, the opening day of the military exercise “Agile Spirit 2011” has been held at the Vaziani Training Area.
The combined military exercise code named “Agile Spirit 2011”, with the participation of U.S. Marines and the 4th Infantry Brigade of the Georgian Armed Forces, began on July 18.
The focus of the exercise is to increase interoperability between the Georgian and US forces and exchange and enhance each other’s capability in counterinsurgency and peacekeeping operations.
The Defense Minister of Georgia Bacho Akhalaia, the U.S. Ambassador to Georgia John R. Bass, and other representatives of the Diplomatic Corps attended the military exercise.
Ambassador Bass briefed those attending on the importance of strengthening the bilateral cooperation between the two countries: “I am pleased to be here to participate in this distinguished visitors’ portion of the exercise. This is an important part of our ongoing defense cooperation between the United States and Georgia.
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“We accomplished our goals of better interoperability and strengthening our partnership”
Interview with the commanding officer of the Black Sea Rotational Force 11, Lieutenant-Colonel Nelson S. Cardella
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In the Vaziani training area, U.S. Marines and soldiers from the 4th Infantry Brigade of the Georgian Armed Forces were conducting a two week combined military exercise called Agile Spirit 2011. The focus of the exercise is to increase interoperability between the forces and exchange and enhance each other’s capabilities in counterinsurgency and peacekeeping operations.
Agile Spirit is the first of what is scheduled to become an annual exercise and supplements other military engagements such as the Georgia Deployment Program, which is a U.S. Marine Corps program that prepares Georgian Armed Forces to deploy to Afghanistan in support of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). “Defence Today” had an opportunity to conduct an interview with the commanding officer of the Black Sea Rotational Force 11, Lieutenant-Colonel Nelson S. Cardella.
What is the goal of the military exercise and how long will it last?
The goal is to increase interoperability of our forces, to grow an already strong partnership and prepare our forces to serve together in combined operations in the region. We have been fighting side-by-side in Iraq for a few years now and we want to extend that partnership and the benefits of working together by adding this exercise.
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Award Ceremony
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An award ceremony for military servicemen of the III Infantry Brigade of the Georgian Armed Forces was held in Kutaisi on July 6. “For participation in the international peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan”, service and state rewards were granted to the 32nd Battalion and Infantry Company personnel who had participated in the ISAF mission. The Defense Minister of Georgia, Bacho Akhalaia, the leadership of GAF and the son of Colonel Ramaz Gogishvili, who had died in Afghanistan, awarded the soldiers.
1,019 military servicemen received medals for participating in the international mission. Four soldiers were awarded the Vakhtang Gorgasali III rank order, and 122 military servicemen were rewarded with the state and service medals.
Georgia is one of the largest contributors per capita to the ISAF military operation ongoing under the aegis of NATO in Afghanistan. Initially, up to 50 military servicemen were deployed in the peacekeeping mission in 2004, whose main duty there was to ensure local security during presidential elections. Since November 16, 2009, a Georgian Peacekeeping Company has been taking part in the mission in Kabul as a part of the French peacekeeping contingent on the military base “Warehouse” of the Regional Command’s HQs.
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Minister of Defense Visits Cadets
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The Defense Minister of Georgia, Bacho Akhalaia, has visited the Georgian cadets and attended their field exercises. The students of the Cadet School Military Lyceum have been undergoing practical field exercises since June 19. Along with the completion of their training, the 2010-2011 academic year will also finish, after which summer holidays for the cadets begin at the Lyceum.
The cadets have been undergoing the field exercise from the outset. They have improved their theoretical knowledge by the implementation of practical field training. For two weeks, the cadets of Military Lyceum have been undergoing tactical, marksmanship, engineering and medical preparation along with physical training. They also received training in communication, military topography, and army regulations.
The Military Lyceum Cadet School began operation at the beginning of the current academic year on September 13, 2010.
Legal Entity of Public Law-Cadets Military Lyceum has been established in the Kutaisi City in accordance with Order # 515 of Minister of Defence of Georgia dated August 2, 2010. On September 13, 2010, the Lyceum was inaugurated in a solemn environment by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili.
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