Václav Marhoul: The training of volunteers must have a clear plan and professional management
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The Ministry of Defense has not yet released too much information, and it is not clear how specifically the voluntary training would take place, how often, with what weapons. Do you think it would be a difficult process?
In fact, I cannot yet imagine how such volunteer exercises would take place, how their recruitment would even take place, who would then provide all the necessary logistics. Starting with health checks and ending with equipment, weapons, ammunition, accommodation, food, technology. It is also necessary to mention that such training requires professional instructors who, according to a clearly prepared task in advance, would effectively lead such, probably generally all-military training.
Václav Marhoul
Who could sponsor such an exercise?
Of course, the Regional Military Command is offered as an umbrella, but even that would of course have to rely on the capabilities of the combat unit, which otherwise has enough of its own problems.
How much time during the year do members of the Active Reserves spend on exercises?
For professional members of the Active Reserves, who serve on the basis of a medium-term contract, we are talking about approximately thirty training days, which are spread in parts over the period of the entire training year.
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Can an AZ member ever achieve the same knowledge and skills as a professional soldier? Is it even possible to achieve this?
It’s hard to generalize, actually it doesn’t work very well. There is a big difference between members of the AZ in individual regional infantry companies and those who serve in combat formations or have a specific classification. Infantry companies are intended only for territorial defense, while their AZ members in combat formations can be deployed together with professional colleagues in a foreign mission.
And the fighting ones?
Even there, it differs from unit to unit, mainly from its capabilities and then also how their commanders are able or willing to train them at all with their professional members and not to design their training separately.
How long do you think AZ is ready to deploy to the front line alongside professional soldiers?
Assuming that AZ members have been participating in regular exercises for at least three years, they would have to go through at least a two-month, very intensive refresher course before deployment.
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Does active reserve training include the handling and use of all systems that a professional military weapon has? Or is there some kind of technology that AZs don’t have access to?
No, it doesn’t include it. They don’t get to some of them at all because they are generally assigned, some are so sophisticated that the prescribed number of training days is not enough to master them, and for others, especially for connection technology, they do not have the necessary security clearance.