20.11.2025.
Field Training of Permanent Members of the Training Command and Soldiers Performing Voluntary Military Service
At the “Pasuljanske livade” training ground, joint field training is underway involving professional members from units of the Training Command, as well as the stationary field camp of soldiers performing military service from the September 2025 intake assigned to the Army Training Centre.
For the purpose of training the professional members of the Training Command, organised to maintain and further enhance their preparedness for conducting combat operations within Serbian Armed Forces missions, temporary task-organised elements have been formed. In line with given scenarios, they are carrying out tactical and live-fire tasks on the move.
During the multi-day field activities, tactical training and live-fire exercises with crew-served weapons are being conducted. The results achieved so far confirm that both soldiers and commanders are capable and highly motivated to carry out their assigned tasks.
According to Colonel Nikola Fatić, Commander of the 2nd Training Centre, tactical drills and programmed live-fire exercises with various crew-served weapons have been conducted at the training ground with the permanent personnel of the Training Command.
“Currently, we are conducting live-fire exercises with 82-millimetre mortars with the professional members of the Training Command. In addition to the objectives set out in the training order, which serve to verify the proficiency of the permanent personnel and refresh previously acquired skills, the aim is also to enable newly appointed professional soldiers, NCOs and officers to acquire new knowledge. We also aim to improve the collective training level of our elements for performing collective tasks, strengthen team spirit and, ultimately, enhance the overall operational capability of the Training Command units, and thereby of the Serbian Armed Forces as a whole,” Colonel Fatić explained.
Parallel to the joint training of the Training Command’s permanent members, soldiers performing military service are conducting stationary field camping, practising tactical procedures, carrying out marches, and performing programmed live-fire exercises with branch-specific weapons.
Through a variety of practical activities including terrain reconnaissance, work of sniper pairs, actions of a rifle squad, establishing firing positions, as well as live-fire execution, the soldiers, in accordance with the specialties for which they were recruited, are preparing for collective training in the Serbian Armed Forces units to which they will be assigned for the second phase of training.
As Second Lieutenant Aleksandar Verbić from the Army Training Centre explained, after completing a month and a half of basic training, soldiers arrive at the centres for specialist training, including his Centre in Požarevac, where they acquire theoretical knowledge and train in the operation of infantry fighting vehicles, artillery systems, mortars and explosive ordnance.
“By demonstrating a high level of readiness to perform all tasks assigned to them, the soldiers give their commanders and superiors a clear indication that the time has come to conduct stationary field camps at the joint-service training ground ‘Pasuljanske livade’, where they can practically test and validate, through a large number of tactical drills and live-fire exercises, all the knowledge they previously acquired in theory. These activities represent the pinnacle not only of their individual specialist training but also of voluntary military service itself,” Second Lieutenant Verbić stated.
Stefan Marjanski, a 22-year-old soldier from Melenci, said that he applied for voluntary military service because it had been his wish since childhood, ever since he developed a love for the uniform, the homeland and the people.
“I’ve made many friends in the military. I was even baptised here and gained a godfather. I learned teamwork and military discipline. As far as training goes, we learned some basic and also more complex tasks. Everyone in my family has served in the military, each in their own time, some graduated from the Military Academy, some served as soldiers, and I decided to follow the same path,” soldier Marjanski said.
