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A well-trained junior command staff is an essential component of a military unit's combat capability. In this video, we tell you about the Yevhen Konovalets Military Commanders School, which trains sergeants of the Third Assault Brigade and the 12th Special Forces Brigade "Azov".
The School has been training junior commanders since 2016. However, in a full-scale war, sergeants undergo an intensive training course. During the training, they are trained not just to be good fighters, but leaders who will be able to lead into battle, command an operation, discipline and take care of their unit's personnel.
The school's instructors use combat experience and the best Western techniques and standards to train the non-commissioned officers of the Third Assault Brigade.
"If you just get a book - Soviet or American - there is no recipe. The recipe is experience, how to apply it. We need examples. We took the best Western guidelines and adapted them to our weapons, our mentality and war," explains Kirt, head of the training department of the 3rd Brigade.
Assaulting and clearing a building, organizing a full-fledged defense of a platoon stronghold - the training takes place in conditions that closely resemble what happens on the battlefield. The soldiers are practicing scenarios of dangerous situations that have occurred or may occur in combat. During the training, the soldiers work on achieving cohesion and clear interaction in a group, when you understand each other at a glance.
"We give them drills, urban combat, give them examples of Bakhmut, Mariupol, Chechnya, Syria - everything we studied, where we were, learned from open or closed sources," says Kirt. According to him, if a soldier takes training seriously, he can gain 20% of the experience gained in combat, "without paying for it in blood or casualties."
Every time after the training, there is an analysis of the actions taken: instructors and soldiers carefully analyze the situation and mistakes made. Making mistakes during training is not a bad thing. It is important to learn a lesson from the situation, because a mistake in real combat can be fatal.
"We teach our personnel to create opportunities to make mistakes during the training process, to identify these mistakes, correct them and become stronger. We teach them to consider and plan for every aspect, not to work on a whim or a hunch," says Kirt.
At the end of the training course, the NCOs undergo a final assault as a summary of their knowledge and skills. The training ends with a ceremony where the soldiers take an oath and receive personalized knives engraved with the sergeant's motto: "Follow me, do as I do.
19 май 2024
