Instead of vacation amusement and travel – drills, combat training, tactics, field medicine. 54 students from universities throughout Poland spend a summertime break in science, studying for the first degree in the Braniewski Brigade of the Armored Cavalry. All this under the Academic Legacy programme.
Students from universities throughout Poland are trained in the 9th Braniewska Brigade of Armoured Cavalry as part of the program "Academic Legacy".
Instead of summertime vacations in the country or abroad, the frogs will spend the next 3 weeks in the Bravva unit. The consequence – if they pass the final exam – will be to get the nomination for the first sub-commander's degree, i.e. the reserve corporal.
– We see that from year to year ‘Academic Legion’ enjoys increasing interest. More and more people want to join the army. Among those 54 students who are presently undergoing training in our brigade are people from all over Poland: from Mazury, Rzeszów or Warsaw – says Marta Hajkowicz, press spokesperson for the 9th Braniewska Brigade of Armored Cavalry.
Those presently educated as sub-commissioners are taking theoretical classes during which they get the cognition essential to command the team. In the applicable part, they will undergo many shooting training, as well as in the field of combat medicine, tactics or the application of means of communication.
Students from universities throughout Poland are trained in the 9th Braniewska Brigade of Armoured Cavalry as part of the program "Academic Legacy".
They'll be commanders.
Weronika Maj, a student of interior safety at the Elbląg Academy of Applied Sciences, last year in the 9th Armoured Cavalry Brigade in Braniewo completed basic training under the program “Holidays with the Army”. presently he participates in the Academic Legion with a view to becoming a sub-commissioner, and yet an officer of the Polish Army. “At the beginning, erstwhile I volunteered for “Holiday with the Army”, I just wanted to test out. See if I'm fit for the army. And I discovered that this is it. I've got soldiers in my family, I've got people to follow my lead. I am certain that I want to be a professional soldier, and that is why I am now taking part in the Academic Legion,” he emphasises.
In turn, the range. Jan Starosta, a student of the 5th year of global relations at the University of Warsaw, began an adventure with the military in the 18th Capital Territorial Defence Brigade. There, too, he received basic training, now he wants to gain the rank of officer. I volunteered for the army due to the fact that I wanted to express my patriotism. For this reason too, I have decided to proceed my education. For now, after this training, I will return to college, but I intend to become active with the army – he declares.
Students from universities throughout Poland are trained in the 9th Braniewska Brigade of Armoured Cavalry as part of the program "Academic Legacy".
The "Academic Legion" in the sub-office module will end in the 9th Braniewski Brigade of the Armored Cavalry on 5 August. Then the participants will take the nomination to the rank of corporal. The condition is, however, the conviction of the examination, consisting of 3 parts: a theoretical, gunner, during which trainees must get a adequate number of points for shooting a Grot rifle, and a applicable part in which they act as instructors at teaching points. Their task is to carry out applicable classes and share their cognition in the fields of, among others, the folding and dispersing of weapons, field medicine or drills.
For Private and Officer
The "Academic Legacy" programme allows students to survey in higher education and, if they wish, to service in the military. It is implemented in 3 modules. The basic – for people who have not dealt with an army at all – lasts 28 days and ends with a serial degree. Its completion is essential if a individual intends to be educated in the following stages. Another is the sub-office module, which means 21-day training, which students in Braniewo are undergoing. Those who want to educate further can participate in the Academic Legion in the officer module. It takes 62 days, classes take place at military college, and its effect is, after passing the officer's exam and gathering formal requirements, to get the rank of lieutenant reserve.
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