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.

Kesab, with majorly Armenian population, and adjacent Armenian villages have been totally evacuated because of terrorist attacks. Before the attack there were 1500-1800 Armenians living in Kesab. During the civil war in Syria many Armenians from Aleppo moved to Kesab.
Kesab attack started on March 21st from 8 border-points of Turkey.
On preliminary information 670 families from Kesab got assistance in Latakia. They have got shelter in the Armenian church and other Armenian institutions.

In the military service there are no little things, that’s why, analyzing the work done last year we came to conclusion that we reached success owing to stability, sub-units’ purposeful actions, maintaining high level of combat alert. Military sub-unit can’t have high level of combat capability permanently if there is no human warmth, tolerance and accomplishment.