Text: Southern Military District Press Service
Photo: Southern Military District Press Service
Scheduled field drills have been started at Black Sea Fleet (BSF) Marine Brigade. Marine units were redeployed to the Opuk Range by sea and by land.
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Black Sea Fleet Marines Started Field Drill
03/02/2012 |
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Marines embarked on BSF large landing ships Caesar Kunikov and Nikolai Filchenkov in Sevastopol and after a short trip landed on unprepared coast of Opuk range near Feodosiya.
Part of the marine brigade consisting of assault battalion, self-propelled howitzer battalion, and air defense battalion carried out a 250-km march by land.
Despite severe weather conditions, marines rapidly deployed and equipped a field camp, and then fell into training tasks.