Hundreds of Ukrainians are receiving infantry training in the UK as the British have pledged to train up to 10,000 Ukrainian troops within 120 days, The Associated Press reported Monday.
The Ukrainians are being put through a condensed version of the British Army’s infantry training that lasts a few weeks. The program includes training in marksmanship, battlefield first aid, and house clearing as the Ukrainians are preparing for urban warfare.
“We are running a basic infantry course, which takes Ukrainian recruits and teaches them to shoot well, to move and communicate well within any tactical environment, and to medicate well,” said Maj. Craig Hutton, a British officer overseeing the training.
The first batch of Ukrainians arrived for training in Britain last month and have already returned to Ukraine. The effort is part of the UK’s military aid to Ukraine, which has so far totaled about $2.8 billion since Russia launched its invasion on February 24.
Other countries have pledged to help the effort to train Ukrainians inside the UK, including New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands, and the Nordic nations. New Zealand announced Monday that it plans to send 120 troops to Britain to assist in the training.
The training demonstrates the West’s deep involvement in the war in Ukraine and support for Kyiv against Moscow. Last week, a group of 26 Western nations reaffirmed their plans to support Ukraine in its war for the long term, a sign that the conflict will not end anytime soon.
One more reason to nuke London!
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This entire deal is a sticky wicket (as the British love to say). I still have grave concerns about how much wider this can go?…
LOL
Ukrainians Receiving Infantry Training in the UK
guess who is in charge of firing artillery shells at their own nuclear reactor?
the ukrainian infantry.
Are the infantry also in charge of manning tanks, flying airplanes, doing brain surgery, etc.?
well i was never in the armed service so i just had to google it =
“”artillery is one of the three major branches (with Infantry and Armor) of U.S. army.””
but that would be uncle sam not ukraine, so who knows what is what over there.
Infantry, artillery, armor and air are pretty much the main branches of all militaries.
A fourth would be missiles, but there’s overlap between smaller rocketry (often classed with artillery), air defense, and long-range missiles.
There’s also one area of overlap between infantry and artillery, which would be my old job: Mortars. Most of them are man-portable and deploy as, or at the very least with, infantry (in US forces, their MOS numbers are infantry, not artillery; I attended Infantry Training School at Camp Pendleton to learn the basic skill). But the higher-level mechanics are similar enough that for e.g. fire support coordination, the courses I took were with artillery instructors at Fort Sill.
do they just send artillery units out without infantry units along with it?
If they’re representative of NATO doctrine (at least as of the 1980s when I was in), it’s all about combined arms. The artillery and air give fire support and cover to the infantry and armor, the infantry and armor, being out front, defend the artillery and air.
“We are running a basic infantry course, which takes Ukrainian recruits and teaches them to shoot well, to move and communicate well within any tactical environment, and to medicate well,” said Maj. Craig Hutton, a British officer overseeing the training.
“medicate well”?
Before, during and after. Stay baked until it’s over.
They are now allowing seventy somethings in. Might be blood pressure meds.
Right, what a bunch of patsies, … almost as pitiful as US Infantry.
I guess the “Universal Soldier” really isn’t to blame; he’s just a poor feckless sap.