I serve in the frontier military unit. It is a year of my service, but cross-border service, or as we say, the real service is half a year. The first six months have been easy, but on the border… On the border even wake up and going to sleep, your actions are quite different. You serve even in a dream, because here the burden of responsibility is very great. Even the army bread is delicious… You eat it – and you are happy, because this right you have worked by your honest and faithful service. On the border the service lasts 24 hours and not a minute less.

Early morning. Nature of Tavush is unimaginably beautiful. We came to a crossroad. They attached a sign where it was written by hand: “Be careful, the enemy shoots!” However, the villagers are not very serious about this sign: “If we, “be cautious “, then we have not go out of the house”, – they scoff.
To my surprise, there are many young people in the village. They accompanied us to their pantheon-memorial where are sleeping peacefully the men who died in the battles for the defense of the village.

The President of Armenia, Supreme Commander Serzh Sargsyan on November 18th made a working visit to the defense positions at the north-eastern border area of the Republic of Armenia. Accompanied by the Minister of Defense and the highest command of the RA Armed Forces, the President of Armenia toured military units, visited the defense positions, observed firsthand the combat readiness of the troops and the ongoing process of army building.

Central Archive of the RA Defense Ministry plays an important role in addressing social and legal problems of servicemen and soldiers-participants of the war. Currently, large-scale work is also underway towards obtaining documents from the troops, and the use of archival documents.

The regional joint air defense system is a set of forces and air defense systems of Armenia and the Russian Federation, which aims to ensure the protection of the state border of the parties in the airspace, control the use of airspace of the parties, informing the parties about the aerospace situation, and possible air and missile attacks and ensuring the implementation of joint actions of air defense forces in the aerospace attacks.

There is no doubt that the work of the military doctor is a feat, loyalty, patriotism, and especially in the conditions of the ceasefire differs significantly from the work of civilian doctors. Under the new law, hospitals of the Defense Ministry are given the status of military medical institutions, which means that hospitals can serve also civilians, which is an additional source of income for the military doctor.

A year ago, Major Sargis Stepanyan in repelling the enemy’s subversive action, when he wanted to take out the body of his colleague from the mined area, was injured during mine explosion and deprived of two feet and one hand.
And this year, Major Stepanyan lifted a 32-pound dumbbell 5 times, thereby setting a record that will be registered in the “Armenian Heroes Book” and will be filed with the application for registration in the “Guinness Book of Records”.