Armenian nation entered the war fully, with its mind, destiny, some of them – with their body and blood. Soldiers’ flow to the borders was without coercion. They were teachers and drivers, city and village people, having very different mentality, who sometimes didn’t understand each other but showed bright examples of bravery. Among them the one should have been selected, selected by destiny, who would have unite them all. He would have been resolute in everything. And we witnessed that since 1989 the name of Vazgen Sargsyan started to emerge.

Engineer-sapper troops can have invaluable, even crucial impact during military actions. Engineer troops’ significance is indispensable especially in mountain regions both during defense and offensive combat.
Deputy Head of AF Engineer Troops Department Colonel Hakob Harutyunyan says:

This year the Military-aviation institute after Armenak Khanperyants will give its regular graduates. On February 27th the students of the Aviation Department gave a state graduation exam.
The graduation exams are on the following subjects: Aerodynamics of flying machines, Structure and flight operation of aerial machines, Tactics and aircraft armament of Air Force, Navigation technics of aerial vehicles.

Gohar Vardanyan-Pahlevanyan, the widow of secret service legend Gevorg Vardanyan, could be considered as one of the prominent women of today. A woman who shared with her husband the difficult, complicated, dangerous life of the agent during almost a half century, bringing glory to her homeland and Armenian women.

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.