On June 20th on the square after Grigor Tatevatsi with solemnity was observed the 18th anniversary of the 1st army corpus. Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, high-ranking servicemen were present. 1st corpus Commander Colonel Tigran Parvanyan in his speech presented the glorious path of the corpus and assured that today it is also ready to implement any combat mission.

Artillery training unit has become truly powerful forge of preparation of junior commanders – artillery professionals. Since last year regiment’s commander is Colonel A.Petrosyan.
From May 3 to 14 the regiment conducted theoretical trainings in the training ground after Marshal Baghramyan.

Aviation department Head Colonel A.Nersisyan tells that for the regiment the year of 2013 completed with fruitful work. Among the arm it was recognized the best and after 4-year gap again was awarded with Banner of Honour.

On the night of May 28, on the southern direction of the contact line of the Armenian-Azerbaijani troops the enemy attempted invasion. During the confrontation the Army of Defense got one loss. That was lance-corporal Erick Gasparyan born in1995. Four of the soldiers with firearm wounds were transported to Yerevan, Central military clinical hospital and continue treatment there. During this period Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan and AoD commander Lt. General Movses Hakobyan visited them.

In the final stage 3 rounds and one team event were held. In the first round, our team took second place among 35 teams. In the second round it was asked to prepare an information release or operational report in English based on the results of the observation point in the duty. Here the Armenian students took fourth place, and in “conditional” standings of CIS countries – second place.

After two years of the formation of independent Armenia’s national army it was decided to provide its own armed forces with medical personnel. Since 1994 Faculty of Military Medicine of the State Medical University after M.Heratsi, which was created by government decision No. 232 of May 19, 1994 on the basis of Medical Service and Emergency Medicine Organization Department, trains specialists.

Territorial recruitment office of Sissian, headed by Lt. Colonel Minas Mkrtchyan, always successfully fulfilled the tasks on recruitment.
We talk to Recruitment unit Head Captain Armen Haroutyunyan.