10TH PS BRIGADE IN VOLARY

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 26, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY_- Czechoslovakia
TOPIC 10th PS Brigade in Volarv
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1. Prior to 29 March 1954, the headquarters of the 10th PS Brig was stationed at
Volary (N 49/Q 55) and was subordinate directly to a PS headquarters in Prague.
Officers of the unit included Major Vine (mnix), brigade commander, Major Zemlicka
(fnu), political officer, and Captain Taman (fnu)? chief of staff. The unit
included one PS battalion which was stationed at Evil& (Aussergefild? N 50/
Q 26), another PS battalion which was stationed at Stozec (Tueset? N 49/Q 44),
and an NCO school which was stationed at Volary. Prior to 30 January 19549 basic
training for recruits was held in a castle near Libejovioe OM 50/Q 77)0
2. Units subordinate to the PS battalion in Stozec included the 12th PS Co which
was stationed at Nova Udoli (Neuthal, N 49/Q 44), and the 14th PS Co which was
located on the road which leads south from Nova Udoli. Officers of the battalion
headquarters included Senior Lieutenant Malek (fnu) and Senior Lieutenant
Blychta (fnu)? whose functions were unknown.
3. Prior to 3 March 1954, the 12th PS Co, which was quartered in a two-story brick
building on the west side of the road to Stozec in Move Udoli? numbered 55 men,
was organized into three infantry squads each of which had 10 to 12 men, one
imam machine gun squad, and one dog-handler squad with 5 dogs, and had 5 ?
draft horses. Officers of the unit included Lieutenant Jaroslav Elatuska,
company commander, Lieutenant Susak (fnu), deputy commander, and acting Corporal
Medulla political officer. The mail address of the members of the company was
"Pan (Mr) or Soudruh (Comrade)86/U? Volare. The 14th Co had mail
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address "80 Volare. Except for 4 Solvaks, all members of the 12th PS CO were
Czechs. The company had 12 model 98-N rifles, 40 model 24 submachine guns, 3
model 36 light machine guns 1 heavy machine gun, model 4 hand grenades, and
signal pistols. Ammunition guns,
weapons which were not used were stored in the
basement of the billets. The roof of the quartering building had a telescope
with which the almost open terrain of the sector assigned to the company was
easily seen.
4. In early. March 1954, the 14th PS.Co? whose three low quartering buildings were
located on a forest clearing about 2 kilometers east of Dreisessel-Berg (hill),
numbered 39 men an of wham were Czechs. Officers of the unit included Lieutenant
Jaroslav Nruska? company commander, Lieutenant Eotek (fnu), deputy commander, and
acting Corporal Hines (fnu), political officer. Enlisted men of the company said
that the unit would shortly receive light machine guns for which belted 7.62eam
ammunition was to be used, while 7.92.cm ammunition was fired up to that time.
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5. Prior to late March 1954d soldiers of the IB1 through 1933 classes
served with the 14th PS Co.
_ On 28 October 1953v the inductees
had to report to the Velke Mezirici (0 50/4 91) r,cruiting district
headquarters where 800 to 1,000 recruits of the 1931 to,i9i3laesea were
atisearibledo A number was allocated to each recruit. about 70
other recruits received number 35. All men were lauded onto buses which
formed a convoy and took them to Jihlava (0 501 61) where the recruits
were divid d up and dispatched to various destinations. The 70 men of
group 35 came to the PS training camp in the castle neer Libe3ovice
where about 500 recruits were eithered from various areas of Czechoslovakia.
After undergoing a physical examination there, the men received training
uniforms. They were organised into four companiesd two of which were
subordinate to the PS brigade in Volaryd while the superior headquarters
of the other two companies was the PS brigade in Ceske Budejovice. The
brigades separetay trained their recruits.
6. Basic training in Libejovice lasted from 1 November 1953 to 30 January 1954
and sterted with a three weeks' course of infantry training. This course
was folloued by special border guard training. For this purposed wire
obstacles of the type used along the border were set up in the castle park.
Starting in December 1953y record practices were held et the Pisek
(N 50/Q 69) target rence every two weeks. The traineos fired with riflesv
submachine guns and lleht machine guns t stationary and =ovine targeted
and also practiced with live hand grenades. In February 19549 the recruits
were divided up and reassigned to the PS companies0 vuring the instructiond
the soldiers were told th:t in the event of war the PS units would have to
prevent the enemy from advancing for at least two hours until the arrival
of norm' army troops.
7. The BM's morale was affected by the hard discipline since even minor
breaches of discipline were severe/y punished., The service schedules also
left little leisure time to the soldierse, Twice a week the men received
m three hours' lesson in politioal indoctrination which aroused limited
interest. On the 15th day of every month 174.40 Kos were paid to PS
soldiers who were entrusted with border guard missions. Tho rations were
g nerally good, but fatv meat and milk were used sparingly. Soldiers on duty
wore garrison caps with their normal uniforms. Steel helmets were only used
in the event of alarm or during special practices. The enlisted men had
no gas masks.
8. To border guard seater assigned to the 12th PS Co octended over 4 or 5
kilometers and included a terrain which was easy to observe. It lied
four watchtowers, but only the two towers on the boundaries between the
12th PS Co and its adjacent troops were occupied at all times. The right
adjacent unit was the 11th PS Co; the left adjacent unit was the 13th
PS Co. The soldiers were not supposed to talk with members of other PS
companies while they were on duty. The sector assigned to the 14th PS Co
which was about 3 kilometers wide and consisted of wooded terrain had
three watchtowers which were occupied by sentries at all times, Some trees
In the company sectors were equipped with sockets to which telephones
could be connected. In this way, the patrols were in a position quickly
to contact the compvny headquarters by moans of potable telephones.
Sentries and patrols constantly had to watch for enemy aircraft. The
battalion in Stozee could call directly for supports by the jet fighters
stationed at Ceske Budejovice. Five barbed wires of the middle fence of
the three-row wire entanglement in the sector of the 12th PS Co were
charged with 49000 volts of electricity. The entanglements in the
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adjacent sectors were also scheduled to be connected to the circuit
in the near future. Tread mines buried in the sector of the 12th C*
were only known on one spot between the middle wire fence and the
wire fencelfronting on the enemy side. Other mines were nowhere _
observed. .5c) wire entanglement had gates in each company sectors for
example there were two in the sector of the 12th PS Co. There were
also underground passages which were not used in winter. H
9.0mgent The present information on the 10th PS Brig and on
discharges and inductions confirms known information.
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