ARM Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Metodija Velichkovski briefed the President of the Republic of Macedonia and the Supreme Commander of Macedonian Armed Forces, Dr. Gjorgje Ivanov on 2017ARM combat readiness, which is a regular and legal obligation. At the ARM combat readiness briefing, which was attended by the Defence Minister Radmila Shekerinska, the…
Battle Staff Non-commissioned Officers course was held from the 22nd January to the 21st February 2018, in the Individual Training Centre, within the Training and Doctrine Command. During the training, the participants had the opportunity to learn about the functional duties and responsibilities of the non-commissioned staff officers and the position and the role of…
At the NATO Medal awarding ceremony, members of the 7th rotation from the Macedonian contingent in TAAC – Capital Kabul, were decorated the NATO Medal for participating in the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan. The NATO Medal for service in missions has been awarded since 1995 to military and civilian personnel cooperating with the NATO…
The ARM units marked the International Military Sports Day – the 18th of February for the thirteenth time, by many sports activities in all garrisons in Macedonia. The International Military Sports Day was officially opened by the Commanders of the garrisons. Afterwards, the ARM personnel competed in cross country running for men and women, small…
In today’s talks with the US Special Operations Command Europe delegation, which is having a two-day-visit of the Republic of Macedonia, main topics of conversation were the cooperation in training and joint participation at international military exercises of the ARM Special Operations Regiment (SOR) and the US Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR). During their visit…
A workshop for designing a plan for the upcoming military exercise ‘Macedonian Flash 14’ (MF-14) is being held at the Training center ‘Pepelishte’ from 22nd to 26th January, 2018. This workshop is part of the continuous preparations and planning of the exercise ‘Macedonian Flash-14’ where NATO re-evaluation Level 2 of the declared military police company…
Today at the Training Command and Doctrine at the military barracks ‘Aleksa Demnievski – Bauman’, the commanders of commands and units subordinate to the ARM GS briefed the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Metodija Velichkovski, on the combat readiness status in 2017. During the annual briefing the commanders informed the ARM CGS about…
Chief of ARM General Staff, Lieutenant-General Metodija Velichkovski, attended the first day of the NATO Military Committee, in Chiefs of Defence sessions in NATO Headquarters, Brussels. At the session of NATO members and PfP countries which take part in Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, the mission commander, General Nicholson and NATO Senior Civilian Representative, Ambassador…
Ten years since the tragic helicopter crash in 2008, in which 11 ARM servicemen lost their lives returning from the ALTHEA peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, were marked by laying fresh flowers on their Memorial. On the occasion of marking the helicopter crash fresh flowers were laid on the Memorial in Blace-Katlanovo by delegations…