Today, 23 September 2014, the ARM Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Goranco Koteski met with Colonel Fikjiri Hoxha, defence attaché of the Republic of Albania to the Republic of Macedonia. Albania appoints nonresident defence attaché to the Republic of Macedonia for the first time, and Colonel Hoxha will perform his duty to from Tirana,…
A high level delegation of the National Guard (NG) of the State of Vermont led by the VNG Commander Major General Steven Cray, arrived today on an official three day visit to ARM. The delegation was welcomed by the Chief of the General Staff (GS) of ARM, Lieutenant General Gorancho Koteski. During the visit of…
In the period from 16 to 19 September 2014, at the Regional Training Center (RTC) Krivolak there was a stationary camping where water artillery live firing (ALF) was conducted by the units of the artillery battalion of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade (1st MIB). On 17.09.2014 (Wednesday) Artillery Live Firing was performed with 105 mm…
On 17-18.9.2014, at the training centre “Stenkovec” members of the Engineers Battalion (ENGRBN) from the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade conducted planned exercises with Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD). The aim of the exercises was to train personnel related to recognition, properties, and handling explosives, how to produce slow burning explosives, ignition of slow-burning explosives, as well…
Members of the special operations regiment in the period from 09 until 25.09.2014, on the ranges for alpine training near Demir Kapija- realized topics on summer climbing and mountaineering. During the training, unit focused on practicing the tactics and techniques for search and rescue in demanding mountainous terrain. This year, summer climbing and mountaineering was…
Today (17.09.2014),in the barracks “Jane Sandanski” in Shtip, a ceremony was held to mark the day of the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion (2.MIBn) from the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade (1st MIB). The ceremony was attended by the JOC Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Stojan Dimchov, the commander of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade (1.MIB) –…
The Armoured battalion (ArmdBn) from the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade on 16.09.2014 carried out shooting paractice with the arms of the armoured mechanized units (ArmdMU) in accordance with the planned shootings for the month of September. The T-72A tank crews intensive training began in September. It consists of performing shooting exercises, preparatory practice shooting with…
In accordance with the Annual Training Plan of the Joint Operations Command (JOC) and the first subordinate units for 2014 in the period from 09.09 to 09.16.2014 in the JOC in the first subordinate units informing the key personnel on current events and developments in the JOC and the ARM and quarterly briefings on training…
Today (12.09.2014) in the barracks “NH Straso Pindjur” in Petrovec a ceremony was held on the occasion of the Air Defence Battalion Day, a battalion which is within the Air Brigade. By decision of the President of Republic of Macedonia and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, September 12th is set as the Air Defence…