"ORGANIZATION, COMPLEMENT, EQUIPMENT, AND TRAINING OF THE RUMANIAN BORDER GUARD"

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 24, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Training of the Rumanian Border Guard
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1, The Border Guard Command has under its jurisdiction four border guard
brigades, the Lugoj Border Guard Division, several training centers,
and a border guard boat group,
2. The organization and dispersement of the four brigades is known to be
as follows:
a, The Oradea Border Guard Brigade is composed of two regiments, each
regiment having three battalions. The brigade is charged with
guarding the frontier in the sector between Oradea and Arad, The
commander of the Brigade is Colonel Grigore Dobrescu,
b, The Bucharest Border Guard Brigade is also composed of two regiments
with three battalions each. The 1 Regiment has headquarters in
Bucharest; the 2 Regiment has headquarters in Braila. The brigade
is in charge of the Bulgarian frontier, the.Black Sea shore, and
the delta of the Danube up to Reni,
c, The Timisoara Border Guard Brigade is organized in three regiments,
.with three battalions each. It is in charge of guarding the Yugoslav
frontier. It is the best supplied and most complete of the brigades.
The commander is Colonel David,
d. The Iasi Border Guard Brigade is composed of two regiments with three
battalions each,
3,. The Command Staff of a Brigade is composed of approximately 5 to 6
officers. The Brigade mission is to control and give guidance to the
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regiments which compose it, and also to control and guide some of the
training centers.
4. Organization of a Border Guard Regiment
(1)
Commandant, Political Assistant, Political Staff, Chief of the
General Staff,
(2) Offices of General Staff: Personnel (complement of Regiment),
Organization, Information (intelligence), Training, Frontier
Guard, Secretariat, Adjutants Office,
(3) Commander of the Rear, Rear Command operates the following
offices: supply, armaments and ammunition, quarters, cashiers,
sanitation, veterinary, care of premises.
Units of a Border Guard Regiment
a, One command group of about 15 men,
b. Three organized battalions each with a Commander and Political
Assistant.
c. The battalion has two, three, or four guard companies, This number
depends upon the size of the sector covered. The complement of a
battalion, in general, is 500 to 700 men,
6. Organization of Companies
a. Commander, Political Assistant, Commander of the Rear.
b, One command group (about 20 to 30 men),
c. The company is composed of three or four platoons, depending on
the size of the sector to be guarded, Each of the platoons has a
commander and a political commander. The platoon is divided into
pickets and fixed posts, The complement of a platoon is from 50 to
BO men. The complement of a picket is about 20 men, The complement
of a fixed post is from three to five men.
7. Armament
Beretta pocket pistols for the cadre; Z.B. rifles, caliber 7,92;
Automatic rifles Z.B., caliber 7.92; Z.B. machine guns, caliber 7.92;
Orita automatic pistols and P.P.S. automatic pistols; hand grenades for
offense and defense.
8. Equipment
Very well equipped. Winter uniforms heavily padded. The equipment is
changed as soon as it gets slightly worn.
Very good in quality and quantity. The troops receive a daily equivalent
of 4,000 calories, Those who are not on guard duty receive 3,200 daily.
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10. Training
.The soldiers undergo an initial training period of six months as
recruits in the training centers of the Border Guard Units. In the
training centers they also acquire some spedialized skills. After this
period they are sent to various border guard units on the frontiers.
They continue technical army training and also specialized training
while they are in the guard units.
11. Complements of Border Guard Regiments
The complement of a regiment is from 2,000 to 29500 men. All the regiments
are organized in a similar way. The differences lie only in the sizes
of the regiments and the variation is determined by the size and
importance of the frontier area to be guarded.
The Yugoslav frontier is the best guarded and therefore the regiments
assigned to this sector have over-sized complements. Here the armaments
are of the best type, and training and discipline are the most severe.
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