01.07.2012.
Odbrana Magazine in its issue 163 of the 1st July brings to you
Around three hundred members of the armed forces of Serbia, Romania and Hungary, along with local and regional civil structures, participated in the trilateral exercise TISA 2012, which confirmed the level of training in recovery from the consequences of floods..The investigation which is in progress will show what exactly happened on that fateful day, 18 June at 9:05 pm at the training ground Pasuljanske livade, when the explosion of an unexploded missile killed two cadets of the Military Academy – Milina Miletic and Filip Milojevic while other two were seriously injured, and five received minor bodily injuries.
In his interview for Odbrana Magazine, Head of the Military Health, Colonel Prof. Dr. Zoran Popovic stresses that since the beginning of the year the military health system has involved the Fund for social insurance of the military insured persons (SOVO). This provided more money and a more stable financing of procurement of medicines, medical supplies and medical equipment for the needs of the military insured.
Planning, organising and conducting of training soldiers to voluntary military service, candidates for professional soldiers and professional members of the Serbian Armed Forces is one of the major tasks of the Training Command.
The Day of 126th Air Surveillance Early Warning and Guidance Brigade, 18 June, was marked. Although the current brigade formation is only 20 years, history and service units that perform the tasks of air monitoring, reporting and guidance in this area is much longer and goes back to the late forties of last century.
Operators of the missile systems Strela 10M from the composition of the 14th AAA rocket battalion achieved excellent results in the control and training exercise in firing at targets in the airspace at the Batajnica airport.
In the Centre for Culture and Sports Šumice, grand prizes of the city competition "Drug-Free Zone" were awarded for the best literary work, and a caricature. Jovan Barovi? from Belgrade, the first grade student of the Military Grammar School, won the first place for the best article.
In forty-eight years dealing with aircraft modelmaking, sixty-seven year old Pavle Pavlovic from Novi Sad assembled and produced about four hundred models of aircraft, more than three hundred of which he has jealously kept in glass cabinets and on shelves in his apartment.
The 38th International Emergency Management, Occupational Safety and Health Fair was held under the slogan "Be safe" at the Belgrade Fair. More than 70 participants, exhibitors and representatives of more than one hundred and seventy brands from twenty countries presented large selection of equipment and devices in the area of prevention and protection of persons and property from natural disasters and calamities and human negligence, as well as health and safety at work, and emergency medical care.
The biggest festival of the aircraft in the memory of the Kingdom of Denmark was held in Aalborg on 10 June. Skilled pilots from all over the world did not allow rain and bad weather to affect them. They showed why they were those who came to represent their countries in the year when the Danes celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the military aviation.
Bundeswehr Command for international engagement is the operational command level and manages all activities abroad. It is an indispensable part of the process of transformation and adaptation of the German armed forces to the new conditions of engagement at the national and multinational level. Competence in the planning and command is reflected in the preparatory and executive functions, based on the national mandate and implementation of the rules of engagement as starting points for participation in international operations and multinational missions.
At the off-road rally "CATENA MUNDI VIA MILITARIS", caravan was travelling from one point to another, from one sport discipline to another, and along the way it encountered history and ethnography, sports and tourism, people and machines, past and present cultures.
The goal of the 10th International knightly tournament SVIBOR DUHOVI 2012 - "Knightly for Children" was to provide future by reviving the past. Visitors could test their skills in battles by the rules and disciplines of the old Serbian army, but also to prove chivalry by leaving a contribution for the treatment of infants at the Paediatric Clinic in Tirsova Street.
From SPORT – the ninth car rally "Memorial for Tepi? the hero" have been organised, and the orienteers of the Serbian Armed Forces have achieved new good results in international competitions.
In the new feuilleton, read about the collapse and the rise of the Yugoslavian naval forces. Eighty-seven-year Svetozar Filipovic, old man of the World, entered the Second World War in April 1941 as a naval cadet Lower Naval Academy, and completed it after he returned to the Fatherland, five years later, in April 1946, as a seasoned naval sergeant. Many decades later, in peace of retirement, he wrote about remembrance of a time when he witnessed at "the defence of the fatherland" breakdown of one and the creation of another state..
Special supplement in this issue – SERBIAN VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT 1876-1918.
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