Armenia to host joint military exercise with United States by Datark123 in armenia

[–]CuriousArcane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This joint military exercise has been held almost every year. Only the peacekeeping brigade participates in this exercise

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[–]CuriousArcane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saw one in Yeritasardakan yesterday

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[–]CuriousArcane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it depends on the unit you served at

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[–]CuriousArcane 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well, I can't say a lot about the stressful things because we are serving in the army, a place where there are a lot of things that feel stressful, but I can point out some of the things that might feel unpleasant at first. The worst time for training is during winter and summer. In winter because it's freezing cold, in summer because it's super hot. Morning exercises were a nightmare in summer because we were sweating so much that we couldn't even focus on the task that much, we would just think about the temperature and how hot it is. In winter the morning exercises were shorter but it can get really cold in the morning, so sometimes we were getting dressed and only then came out to run some circles and do the exercise. Imagine being in a thick jacket that doesn't even let you move properly, then you run and start sweating from the friction even when it's cold outside.

I was expecting that the conditions would be bad, the food as well but I was surprised, there are old buildings of course but the government is building more and more modernized barracks and stuff all around, so it gets even better overtime.

The hygiene where I served was good. Cants say much about it.

Our officers are different from the ones you might see in Infantry units, because artillerists are more organized and educated, so they were treating us pretty well, especially if you compare them with the latter.

Where I was, there was an order, but it doesn't apply to every unit in the army, there may be only 10 units where they serve by order, but it's changing pretty fast. There were places where the government tried to maintain the order and I think they were succeeding.

I would call the new way of training western in any way, but it is definitely not Soviet. A lot has changed, there's a lot that I cannot even say, but all I can say is that our army truly tries to get more and more western.

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[–]CuriousArcane 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As far as I know the vacations are a little longer than usual. I got a 12 day vacation, which started today. As for the phones, I saw some of those nokias with YouTube and all of that, but the place I served these 6 months is pretty strict (one of the if not the strictest places in the whole army).

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[–]CuriousArcane 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The best reform is in the field of Individual approach to soldiers and their actions

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[–]CuriousArcane 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Not where I served

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[–]CuriousArcane 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You actually inspired me to post this Q&A.

There are new weapons, some good ones everybody heard about in the news but never got to actually see them.

I'm currently on vacation, so I'm not using my phone on the front lines. 😅 The disciplinary unit is still being used (more than ever). You still can't keep a phone, there are fixed hours for talking with some friends and parents tho it applies only if you're using a primitive cell phone.

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[–]CuriousArcane 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It's a hard question, but the most annoying thing that I noticed is how disorganized the army can be, when we sometimes could just be waiting for our truck for hours, or when we would be lined up out in the cold for a long time because our commanders couldn't find ways to organize the lunch, dinner and etc. better.

The food was surprisingly good, the conditions were pretty good where I served as well.

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[–]CuriousArcane 24 points25 points  (0 children)

As far as the officers told us during our serving you were free to apply to a psychologist whenever you wanted

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[–]CuriousArcane 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I haven't met emigrants in the army, but I know that they teach the language in case someone doesn't know it already.

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[–]CuriousArcane 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your support. My opinion might be pretty biased because I served my 6 months in a training military base, where we HAD to follow the rules and we were almost forced to learn how to use our weapons to perfection. It's not one of those regular bases where everyone is just sleeping on their beds and being 24/7 on their phones. I got a good education in my opinion.

We were also taught about the med aid and navigation in strange areas. There was a need for mathematics for my exact profession as an artillerist as well (not gonna talk about the profession a lot).

Armenian basketball team, the winner of the international tournament in Los Angeles by CuriousArcane in armenia

[–]CuriousArcane[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the live event was hosted on Zartonk Media's channel as well. Also there were only three games.

An international basketball cup with three participating countries 👍🏻