Brigade level command post exercise with first-year student officers is being held

According to the curriculum of the university, in the period from 13 to 17 July 2020 the command post exercise with first-year student officers has been organized.

The peculiarity of this event is its conduct with the use of training facilities in the Training Center of the NDUU. In order to provide the activity of a separate mechanized brigade mobile control towers have been deployed. It allows to reproduce close to real working conditions of brigade C2 officers.

The training is based on current topics, taking into account the experience got  by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine while carrying out missions in the Joint Forces operation area.

One of the key issues in planning of brigade combat operations is an organization of liaison that took place on July 16. For the event, student officers prepared a model of the area, which allowed to agree on the joint implementation of combat missions by all units of the brigade and to outline the order of actions of brigade units depending on the possible enemy actions.

Decision making at all stages of exercise and development of planning documents have been carried out on the basis of prepared combat orders and service support orders, as well as on the basis of operational environment development.

The analysis of the CPX events gives grounds to claim that the positive results of the joint work of instructors and student officers of the university have been achieved.

It should be noted that the organized command post exercise is the final stage of brigade themes training of the university’s student officers.