THE RUMANIAN MARINE INFANTRY

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• Publication Date: June 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
? This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United dunes. within the Mean-
ing of Title le, Sections 723 end 704, of the U.S. Dods, an
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its canton's
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COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT The Rumanian Marine Infantry
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. Location: The Infantry Corps of the Rumanian Navy is located at Constanta, on ,
Lenin Boulevard, No. 56.
Commander: Colonel Starcu
Political Commissar: Major Brad
Chief of the Gener91.Staff: Major Niculescu.
2, The General Staff is divided into the following sections: Operations Section*
Training Section, Scouting Section, Liaison and Conmunications Section, Cipher
Section, Civil Defense Section. Counterintelligence Officer (of the Infantry
Corps): Lt. Major Emil Gusti. He answers directly to the Ministry of Armed
Forces (MFA). The Political Section Was 4 to 5 officers. They are the heads of
the various bureaus: agitation-propaganda, intelligence, party's committee, MN
(Union of the Working Youth) and training. The political section i. conducted by
the political commissar and answers directly to the Commander of the Corps. The
Cadre Section is in charge of personnel matters. This section works under the
orders of the Commander of the Corps. The Command of the Corps has a complement '
of 100 officers and about 120 sub-officers who are assigned to the various services.
3. The Commander of the Rear is under the orders of the Commander of the Corps. He
directs the following services: the Supply Service, The Equipment Service, The
Accounting Service and The Transportations Service.
4. The Infantry Corps of the Navy is composed of: two infantry bases . numbered 1
and 2; one tank brigade; and one independent navy-infantry battalion.
5. The Navy-Infantry Base No. 1: Location: The command of the base is housed in
the buildings located in the center of the city of Online. Those buildings are
on the street which starts in the center of the city (the harbor) and goes south.
The buildings are across from the city's hospital.
Commander: Colonel Petre Iacob
Political Commissar: Major Ion Barbu
The General Staff has a similar organization to that of the Infantry Corps.
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6. Organization of the Nay fay Base: one navy-iinfanta7 regiment, two imde-
pendent navy-infantry battalions, one antitank artillery company (iff).
7. ?reanimation of the Navy-Infantry Regiment: three navy-infantry battalions; one
artillery company; one pioneers company; me pistol company; one rtar nneveny,
81,4 ime caliber; one communications cowpony.
g. Organization of the battalion: three rifle companies, ome machine gun company,
one antitank platoon.
9. Organization of the company: three rifle platoons, composed of three squads eadb
with ;0 men in each squad; one pistol platoon; cale machine gun squad; one antitank
(AT) platoon.
10. Armament: The company: nine ZR automatic guns, three =machine gam; the rest are
E8 rifles. The AT (antitank) guns are of Soviet type.
11. Organization of the artillery company: three artillery batteries composed of four
guns, of 75 ma caliber each.
22. Ckganization of the AT company: tie batteries, each equipped with four AT Shots
guns, 75 me caliber.
13. Location of the subordinate units of Base No, 1: The Navy-Infantry Regiment is
located in the barracks built on the south bank of the Bolin& Channel, on the Meek
Sea shore, at approximately one kilometer east of the city of Selina. One of the
independent battalions of Base No. 1 is housed in wooden barracks located an the
beach north of the tomn of Sfantu Gheorgbe (at the mouth of the Sfantu Gheorghe
River). The barracks are located approximately 10 kilometers north of the town of
Sfantu Gheorghe. The second independent battalion of Base No. 1 is installed in the
same barracks which house the regiment, in SUlina.
14. The Navy-Infantry Base No. 2: Location: The Commead of the base is installed
in the Wilding near the ceater of the city of Nang:alias apprimcimetely 40 kilometers
south of Constanta. Commander: or Gheorghe Al; Political Commissar: Najor
Nicolas Cojocara; Chief of the General Staff: Captain Third lank Gheorghe Mientesno.
The General Staff had a similar orgenisation to that of the Navy-Infantry Carps.
Counterintelligence officer: Lt. Petre Trajmel. The organisation of Navy-Infantry
Base No. 2 is similar to that of Navy-Infantry Base No. 14
15. The Navy-Infantry Regiment of Nmagalia: Location: The regiment is hound lathe
wooden barracks, located approximately one kilometer north of Nangalia. Comander:
Captain Leontin Spineenu; Political Commissar: Lt. ajar Vasile Gheorghe; Chief
of the General Staff: Captain Petra Broils.. The two independent battalions of
Base No. 2 are housed in wooden barracks, located near the Navy-Infantry Ibtgimentis
barracks, north of Nangalia. The organisation and the equipment of the regiment
and of the tic independent battalions are staler to those of Bass No. 1.The emits
of the Navy-Infentry Corps have theologian of gperding the Mask Sea mast agaimmt
enemy invasion. The, have the dnkr of resist*, atqf possible attack until the emits
fronthe inlanders transported to the share.
16. The Tank Brigid*: Location: The oommend of the tank brieede of theyInfantry
Corps is located in the village Basarabi (formerly called librfatlar)?lappr?eulmately
20 kilometers west of Coastanta. Commendert Camel Chlrilov; PolttlaalCkmmdssara
Akjor Petro Calin.
17. Owgenimation: The General Staff - identical organisation as that of the Corps'
two tank regiments. At present the brigade has only one regiment with a complete
complement. The fely-amoned regiment is composed of three battalions or three
companies each, with three tanks in each calesaY. The creatiom of the second
regiment is scheduled fbr the near future. Two AT companies. At present the
regiment has only one company.. It is equipped with Sawbet type antitank eetarial.
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18. Armament: six Stalin type 122 tanks, 25 T-34 tanks, four German Tiger tanks.
During the latest maneuvers on the Black Sea coast, the brigade has takenipart
in the exercises and has proven efficient.
19. The Independent Navy-Infantry Battalion: Location: It is housed in the barracks
located at the place called Tiglina, on the north bank of the Danube and on the
left bank of the Siretul River at their point of confluence, which is two kilometers
west of Galati. This battalion is organised the same way as is any other battalion
which is part of a navy-infantry regiment. It is similarily equipped and manned.
The battalion is under the direct orders of the Navy-Infantry Corps,
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