YUGOSLAV FRONTIER TROOP ORGANIZATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001500930010-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 9, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Yugoslav Frontier Troop
Organization
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Company ....... 120 to 180 men
Platoon .....e. 30 to 60 men
Squad ....... 10 to 12 men
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1. Frontier troops are now on the Table of Organization of KNOJ Frontier
Divisions. These troops are organized into regiments and their Table of
Organization is as follows :
a. A regiment is composed of three battalions, each of which has one mortis
company and three rifle companies. Each company has three rifle platoulns
and one platoon of AT rifles. The number of squads in a platoon rarie
depending on the number of frontier posts the platoon occupies. Tba
regimental motor vehicles are mainly of German types and are driven by
fuels other than gasoline, such as charcoal-generated gas.
b. Unit strengths are as foible:
c. The mortar companies are armed entirely with German weapons. Each squad
has one machine gun, three German sub-machine guns and German rifles.
The squad leader carries a pistol.
d. Uniforms for frontier troops are good and consist of a blouse writi, one
row of buttons, cap and overcoat, all of olive-gray. The cloth and boots
are of good quality.
e. The following is the ration and pay scale:
Bread r...e?.......0 800 grams
Heat 30 grams
Beans or barley .... 300 gram
Monthly pay ........ 1$0 dinars
2. Morale is high among the Communists but poor among the others. Units are held
together by the watchfulness of agents of OZNA. Desertion is nevertheless
fairly frequents
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3. There are three Frontier Regiments on the Table of organization of the
2nd KNOJ Division. These hold the frontier line from Kopar to a point
above Maribor. The 5th Regiment of Frontier Troops holds the line from
Kopar to Salcano (near 0orica). It is commanded by Lt. Col. Lado
Drasovec, a Slovene about thirty years of age.
4. 5th 2egiment
lst Battalion - Kopar to Sezana, inclusive.
2nd Battalion - Headquarters is at Lornberg Commanding officer is Major
Milivoje Andjekovic.
4th Company - Battalion Reserve at o.-noe go
5th Company - Sempas, Commanding officer is 2nd Lt. Jose Marot.
lst Platoon - near Sempas
2nd Platoon -,holds frontier Hosts at Gorica railroad station, Sempeter
about 4500 meters south of 3appo er .
and frontier posts cnv4 ui inn
3rd Platoon - Disposed in three posts in the open country in or up to and
including Mirna village.
6th Company - Frontier line from Uirna (exclusive) as far as Sezana
(exclusive)
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