04.12.2009, 19:38
Zitat: New Base
New dislocation place for the First Artillery Brigade of the Georgian Armed Forces was opened. President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, Defence Minister Bacho Akhalaia, Chief of Joint Staff of GAF, Major General Devi Chankotadze attended the opening ceremony. President congratulated soldiers with the opening of the new base and spoke about ongoing modification in the Defence system. President emphasized the strategic importance of participation of Georgian troops in the NATO peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. Through participation in such missions Georgian servicemen will be given opportunity to increase their experience. “There is no doubt that this operation contains risk factor and there are no illusions in this case, but all of you presented here, you do not have fear and are ready take a risk. We know that after Russian aggression more volunteers expressed desire to serve than before the violence. We are proud of them who have battled and made supreme sacrifice for the Homeland,” stated the President.
Mikheil Saakashvili stressed the fact that Georgian Armed Forces must be prepared on high level, “Georgian Armed Forces must be well prepared, know much about high technologies and have a good command of a foreign languages … without having skills in best practices it is impossible to perform modern warfare, modern battle filed contains advanced technologies”, the President mentioned.
“There is an important fact that we were able to rebuilt infrastructure ruined during the war. This is a new base for the First Artillery Brigade, which was created after the war when the existent only one artillery brigade was divided in two new brigades,” the Defence Minister said.
The new base was built in compliance with international standards in the course of 8 months. The complex of the base includes barracks, canteen, training centre, gym, stadium, medical centre and administrative building. The infrastructure buildings are equipped with cutting edge technologies.
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