I lived with a clear conscience and faith, always looked at my country with a clear view. Thank God, we have an independent state. To get results we need unity, united will. We must cherish our national values, our culture that tomorrow of our children be more light and clear. As writer Mouratsan said, “State’s basis is the family!” Our tomorrow’s defenders, soldiers of the army grow in families. We must cherish our army as our children. We, who participated in military actions, are ready today also, if necessary, to participate in the holy task of Homeland’s defense.

Siblings Arthur and Karen Grigoryans serve in different regiments. 9 months haven’t seen each other. Recently they have met. On the occasion of the women’s month Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan made a surprise to their mother – Mrs.Gayaneh, giving a promotional holiday to her sons. I also decided to go and participate in their joy.

The task is being implemented according to the order, observation does not stop. Till this moment no shooting was there from the enemy’s side, everything is fine. There are no soldiers with psychological or health problems, – clarifies platoon commander, Senior Lieutenant Armen Melkonyan. – They are ready to fulfill combat task.

In 2013 positive tendencies were registered in the regiment under the command of Colonel Karen Arstamyan. As officer of the regiment on social and legal issues Captain Sevak Aghajanyan told, in 2013 an acute decrease in violations of service discipline was registered – 5 servicemen have been convicted, incidents with physical injuries were basically because of negligence, incidents of leaving the regiment without permit also decreased.

I’ll be frank, there was no thought in my mind to raise a hero, even I didn’t think about patriotism. Only I wanted my son to become a dignified, kind, responsible person, to defend the week, help the needy, be honest, have his own opinion.
My son was an ordinary boy as his coevals. My Armen was loved both at schoоl and neighborhood. He had many friends, a lot. He took responsibility, made decisions, united friends…

The army is a “breathing” structure, and it is natural that certain problems can be there. Only not working structure has no problems. And if there are apprehensions, basically they are linked with soldier-soldier and officer-soldier relationships. Like the army, this year we have also included Defense Minister’s 2014 message in our program, really, a united fight is needed against street manners.

Towards the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Turkey again showed its real, Armenophobic face, this time in Syria. Using the extremely tense situation around Ukraine, Ankara tried to force its own settlement of the Syrian conflict, as well as deal a serious blow to the Syrian Armenians.