Recently in the army corpus under the command of Colonel Tigran Parvanyan a consultation was held headed by Defense Minister S.Ohanyan. RA AF GS Head, Colonel General Yu.Khachaturov, Minister’s deputies, GS Head’s deputies, commanders of army corpuses and other sub-units were present.

Artillery training regiment is the only one in the national army that 5 consecutive years wins “the best” title and is being awarded with the banner of honour. According to the existing procedure in case of 3 consecutive successes the banner of honour gets its permanent registration in that same regiment. The thrust and hardworking staff fights for the second banner.
Regiment’s Commander Alexander Petrosyan says that “to become the first – it is not easy, since the other training regiments are also working very well, and we reached success in serious competition conditions”.

We are in the peace-keeping brigade under the command of Major General Arthur Simonyan. Among the servicemen he mentioned Avag Kurdiyan who has been serving in the infantry battalion since 2011, in 2013 with the army grouping he was in Afghanistan ensuring security of Kunduz airport.

On February 15th in the Sports-Concert Complex after K.Demirchyan the 10th Congress of Volunteers Union “Yerkrapah” (Defender of country) was held. RA President S.Sargsyan, Defense Minister S.Ohanyan, high-ranking officials and servicemen, war participants, guests were present.

Early morning Defense Minister S.Ohanyan made a surprise visit to one of the regiments. During his visit the Minister checked the morning wake-up and physical training of soldiers, got acquainted with their living conditions. Afterwards the Minister had breakfast with the soldiers.

On February 17th the new educational year started in the national army. The year started with the drill-test and solemn ceremony, followed by 3-day tactical drill sessions.
In the military union headed by Major General Ishkhan Matevosyan, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan participated in the solemn ceremony, Aid commission was headed by Major General Aris Brutyan.
Minister Ohanyan explained the specifics of the new educational year to the servicemen and command staff, essentiality of high quality education and gave assignments.

Anti-air defence training regiment’s recruits swore on February 2, 2014. Aragatsoten district’s head-marzpet Sargis Sahakyan, number of community heads, RA GS AAD troops commander, department head Colonel Armen Vardanyan, high-ranking officials, guests, schoolchildren headed by their teacher Lieutenant K.Vahanyan participated in the solemn ceremony.