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where were you hit the scotts bed? okay, that's what i'm going to clean and it's the leg, the bandage on. of the got it. just the point, nice distributive all wars unpredictable. it's better to be prepared if you want me to have to know what to do if things ever gets serious a stimulus touch highlight to say more and more people preparing themselves for the sort of situation that sorta stuff when you, when i meet the, this is a rifle range in august of

a town in northeast of poland. the president at the local gun club. y'all check troops. kosky is preparing the range for a public training session. whole this semester. okay . okay, now we can shoot looking for everybody. yeah. check a 50 year old truck driver and gun enthusiast runs the club in his spare time. he personally instructs the club members twice a month. they get together to practice book ready, low they use live ammunition the

i just want spots and because they were open to everyone, i'm not just members only to anyone that can come along and see if guns are for them. but obviously, if you ask me to do this for everyone, i think the problem is everybody should try it out for boys. see how much i munition do you want them to? how much is it? he said he is a 5 slot a year yet fully. so when's, at our turn generally generally gets busy people, you have to wait in line with like in the old days under communism is that that's a fed as well as club members with their own weapons. there are also a lot of new comers king to try and shooting for the 1st time. demand that poland rifle range has as high as a consequence of searching the war. and ukraine has made us incredibly popular to the, the group of what we know. since the russian aggression began to move, we've noticed a significant increase in the mountains. so those is to hold you,

especially from people who have no previous experience with weapons on 2nd row. now . since the beginning of the war in ukraine, membership and they go storm shooting club has more than doubled. the new members even include children, accompanied by their parents. poland has no age restrictions on small caliber weapons like that. southern tame left. keep your arms straight. the top of the damage of the city. when you finish to take a step back and wait for the next command, they'll come in, but that's the most of my time sheet. the old service provides items for the g. mostly it's fathers coming with their children. cool. by cool, i'll let this suppose boys and girls just in the and someone will, she will young. but my daughter actually machine when we grown ups have to somehow and you still in the younger generation, the will to defend themselves. but a change it over on the phone.

my son, he started in the scouts and they suggested we tried the shooting range and i wanted to see what it was like that nice overall and very impressive piece of mind that is a focus on safety. and there's demand for it. lots of my friends have been shooting for a long time. but the recent political events have definitely prompted more people to take it up for shooting practice. isn't folk something the stage wants to encourage their plans to build more than 500 new rifle ranges and to make accessing firearms simpler. in 2022 weapons training was made compulsory for school children in the 8th grade fears of a russian attack or driving poles to take up arms. yeah, chuck says civilians with the right training have a role to play. you start with like a automatic religious physical male soul and it has a whole army of civilians who know how to shoot for on the brand new boys. gordon,

70000. yes. close the a wellness ensures that they do it as a sport, but military weapons work the same way. all you project when you missed precise one of them. there are other hunters. so who, so just some fund where basically are kind of silent, reserved for the form once here in an emergency, we could quickly be ready to assist. so somebody said overall total into seeing a clear trend towards military preparedness over on the most the end, it's not just citizens were arming themselves. since russia invaded the crane, the polish government has spent around 14 and a half 1000000000 euros on missile defense systems, tanks and war plans. new equipment is shown off to the public at so called military picnics around the country. their

plans to increase military spending to 5 percent of g d p as well as to raise trip numbers from 164002300000. nowhere in poland. just the warfield closer than here in the foothills of the carpet and mountains, possession of the regional capital is less than 90 kilometers from the ukrainian border. the city has become a new nato outpost. it's airport is a hub for western arm shipments bound for ukraine. the every day military aircraft arrived, carrying us air defense systems, munitions, and armored vehicles. the area is strictly monitored, and filming is just about impossible. the

comedy on mazda who was born and grew up in joshua of, of the 23 year old hopes to join the army. soon since his school days, he's been a volunteer which toilets one of poland, many paramilitary groups. since the war began, the organization has grown in popularity. they shall feel, but here's my, still it stress uniform. we will go to go over this from top to go from left to them. so missed on the miles a little bit above. i quoted ski florida or 2 feels uniforms jackets or leases or 2 and also loot of equipment like not just purchased and tactical downs or bus effected snack companies that will keep the ball. so it must have, you've got helmet, gas mask hearing protection for the shooting research conducted on the or full of tributes attack phone to put you with this sort of rate and pointing to minutes in line everything you need for a 1st aid kit that is likely to value

a little closing up. that's x comedy, elsie's, what he does as preparation for a career in the military. he's also joined up as a volunteer with the territorial defense force, a home guard that exists alongside the professional army, to select a postpone signal to sneak through school luckiest place. i was wondering what to do with my life just means i decided that at some point i would like to join the army. that's my goal. so to beach, for me, it's about strengthening our country's potential. we've added security less of a kyle a bit, so i will tell us the less the price of bushy last little you pull a lot of the population. that's why i'm with strategy was i'm why i want to join the army some all once a month coming and goes to a barracks, to train with the territorial defense force he and does the unit also with says the regular army and securing the airport, making coffee yeah,

want one. yeah. coming and still lives with his parents and 2 younger siblings. his father has just come home from work right now along side to tell its and his duties and the territorial defense force coming hardly has any time to spend with his family plan. are you on duty again? soon? question. yes, definitely. sometime this month i heard about it also. i looked at the airport. yeah. so is there some kids that will be there to swap the warranty crane hasn't made judge of the same is going to know, could i, you know, yes, they're looking for cities, airport is now strategically important for the west. so i think he's nipple us and nato troops are stationed there. so there's always come out to be pushing and i'll get involved. the cold weather is playing a new important role as the echo the drugs decisions not to know. we're part of nato and it's 1st line of defense ceiling. i'm not sure if push comes to shove,

we'll be the 1st to be attacked and some of engine if you have a she so have to arm ourselves and a she motioned me to the right and she was going to it also is i'll talk about why the by russia has attacked ukraine, but are you not the who's to say there won't be a tax on other countries? so instead of putting you this, of course we're proud of our son. so he's constantly on active service incident or whether it's with charlottes or the territorial defense for. so it sounds like steven a territorial volunteer is receive just under a $170.00 euros a month for their service. but they're not professional soldiers. a few weeks ago carmel applied to join the regular army. he's waiting to hear back many of camels friends, also challenge talents while they were still in school. and several are now in the army. he's meeting up with some of them to go bowling. so let's go in

the but you nice, nice. uh you got one. what about the for tell me linda. it's friends. it's plain to see how the war has changed. their hometown, whether in bars, restaurants or bowling alleys. american soldiers are now ever present as well as a nato stronghold. joshua is also an important logistics hub for the us army. almost 5000 us military personnel are now stationed in the city. but they don't

talk to journalists of the said, i'd say the americans are part of our everyday lives. like you're at the bowling alley. oh, that's actually but we have no real contact with each other. we don't make any sense of us because they live in their world and we live in our shop. no, miss floyd. some are already referring to joshua as the new ramstein, a reference to the us air base in germany. the city has become a symbol of colin's new strategic importance within nato, and the whole is getting a lot more attention now. that's also forcing us to expand our army to make it one of the best in you are of ink for even in nato was less credible. and i don't know if it's, if not the, the, the armed forces themselves or heavily promoting that expansion. since october 2022,

the army has been offering free one day courses in some of the countries barracks. the sessions offer an introduction to basic military skills. here in moore saw participants have gathered at a military academy. first they get to witness a short demonstration by real soldiers, a simulated combat mission chase of focus. and the thought of today's demonstration gibson, impression of how combat operations are carried out with the squad leader gives the signal to the cadets. then carry out a patrol, track down, and eliminate the enemy easily to the one. if you do need of the,

anyone between the ages of 16 and 65 can take part. according to the ministry of defense, there are more applicants than available sponsor. among those who have signed up our mag deborah don scott, and i'm going to ask of all yes, the 2 friends from warsaw heard about the training program on television just it sounds like it's because you know, we live in such to be the time spot. it's important to get some minute treat trainings on. yeah, sometimes hopefully we'll learn some basics. hey, i hope things that might be useful in the future. just got some of that. i'm super close book, so that's just where we've never aside. guns will threaten grenades and so as for the baptist district, we're here to get a sense of it. so just to gain some completely new experience like them on the phone as the phone and session i go nashika is a principal at a primary school. my daughter is

a fitness trainer because of the 1st thing on their agenda is hand to hand combat extra people like i quickly knocked the knife out of his hand and moved back. oh, was it? yeah, hang on. i mean, okay, i'll hold it loosely. bravo. in groups of 8 to 10 people, they take part in various exercises, survival, training, piloting drones and weapons training. the instructors are season soldiers, most of whom have previously been deployed to for on the website is very intuitive . there's only one way it works. on the right for like this is quite heavy. so it takes a lot of practice starting through so i'll have some help. so work i'm using the

rifle is basically quite simple. and although they just need to memorize each step carefully as would be so you don't make any mistakes or some kind of, you know, because you all did not pull this lever down. and the width is an automatic mode. here we can check whether there's a cartridge in the chamber. all the strap shouldn't be around my neck, right? so long as it's too short for you. it should be longer visit the cook to say it's a way of combining the fun with the practical, like a most you have a good time, but you will say learn something new. it's a traditional, vague events, rectangular as possible, and attractive georgia with nice weather and professionals who know exactly what

they're doing. and i think the ministry of defense is the courses are in response to ignore most popular demand. after russia invaded ukraine, the polish military was flooded with requests for training from both men and women . for anthony, erica and mazda. it's now time to learn the proper stance to use when firing a weapon the semester. so that's, this is the shooting position. with my left leg slightly forward, it's just because the problem that has been put in how do i secure the weapon numbers? good. so i'm going okay that to them pulled the box. i lou are the right thing to remove the magazine on that and put that way. step 3, i take a new magazine and pull back the lock and start over again.

a, a, a sca and mark don't get to use like the munition just yet. instead, they try out a simulator the ship of all, but it sounds well i really enjoyed shooting with hand guns to simulate to shows you exactly what mistakes you're making long. you've been not even more vulnerable to go the line. he's back on the talk here. i don't know how well prepared we can be. i just wanna say just a moment on that exercises, but this definitely goes some way to helping us be ready if there ever were a conflict situation. sure. that my supervisee of the knowledge, i definitely encourage my friends to come along the, even though calling that a good system and i've already decided to sign up to take part in the next quarter . so i'm, i'm, i'm in one place has become available as you typically invest the

programs official aim is to rouse interest and to attract applicants for either the army or the territorial defense force which offers logistical support to the professional army. the forces membership has increased dramatically since the start of the war, that as well as its proximity to ukraine. there is another reason that poland is strategically important for nato. this is the civil kick at a 17 kilometer long stretch of land along the polish lithuanian border. this is all that separates the russian ex clave of colleen and grad from belle. over is a close ally of moscow. it's seen as a potential achilles heel for the nato alliance. the atmosphere here is tens, especially since mercenaries from russia's bosner group had been stationed and

deliveries the shooting range and alco stuff is just a 30 minute drive from the valerie san border. so it would take you stuff to zone. so every now and then we see military columns on the road here. it's a reminder that something is going on. so she should like, but we don't think too much about it and you know some of them and just keep you on, move it. jerome is for you. we focus on our role. the civilians come us for you from such a does, it'll be army, it has its own work to do and we have hours like or so use spectrum. and if anything happens, we'll be ready on thursday may for a member, you're using a different weapon, but you have to adapt to share with us just when i used to the other ones. keep going. last year. yeah, check also decided to join the territorial defense force, which that's because the physical and the has the old saying goes on. but if you

want peace and repair for war, just at this potential aggressor, see the poland disarming itself, or when they see that we have more and more people who know how to use weapons, i agree is and that are firing ranges are becoming more and more popular sort of insight than they might think. okay, it's not worth attacking, following close to that suspect. what sort of positive us bush like down the thought was that you've used to moser, it doesn't say that. and when you see how you create in civilians, have done their bit with their own territorial defense force of the voltage. and that's also a motivation for us here and call into vince moot. the 2nd was, i mean, it wasn't with us a 1000000 because vicki lugens, it shows that even ordinary people who aren't professional soldiers can make a difference. meaning months of i shared with the not that much i'm associated with probably just the a full body style. good change the smell of the. 2

the, the job of giving military training to polish civilians largely falls on paramilitary groups. like charlotte's. the ministry of defense estimates that up to 100000 people, a train with such groups. and that number is on the rise. 2 years ago, camille was still a new recruit. now he gets lessons on behalf of shell. it's once a week at his actual high school shut up, shut. i sit down but i said sit down and people just drop out score. we tell him alongside normal lessons, the school offers military training. it also promoted to the local territorial defense for us to shut them up,

which is our 1st topic is medicine on the battlefield, general, caring for the wounded. take all your medical equipment into backpacks with you up . let's talk you take the bags and wait in the car. the door. uh the check catch in the thought. oh nothing. you would just get ship them up. so we give the wounded person 1st aid and if possible, get them off the battlefield. is that clear? no. that's the letter. the put the bandage on to the point nice seems to be delores unpredictable is better to be prepared to know what to do with things ever get serious. but i'd like to see more and more people preparing themselves for these sorts of situations. he's a bad side as well. feel some sort of course, just portraits up on me. i want to beach shallots is poland, largest and oldest pair military,

3. but it was founded at the beginning of the 20th century ago before poland was a sovereign state. it was never part of the polish armed forces, but traditionally, the army has always looked to paramilitary groups like charlotte's to find recruits . so let's feel it. your role is to create people citizens further north of military recruitment center as partners miss? yes, most of the people involved will join the army at some point in touch, looking to the boys, because we don't train soldiers here. and i mean, your session wants that we turn young people into a responsible and peach tree. i'll take citizen. oh my gosh. the whole search, oh nothing, just hope you're having said that we do see ourselves as part of the national system of defense that almost you price for shipping. well i don't need a bit higher. okay. of the was officially vis a vis a vis i visit yesterday. the 2nd younger is manuel. my parents are probably the best people to ask them about. charlotte, so she to me about it to uh, what's the product that i like you,

but i do think it was my personality has changed or how like that the show much ok to call them up like, you know, i'd like to, i'd become even more drawn to the military, to higher ours is on the following orders on the go on. yeah. just with the simply not all, most of the know some of it. the 1st of all, the trunk, i think being here has helped me the true meaning of the discipline for the richer the next morning coming and prepares for a military provide its armed forces state. and he's going to take part in the parade wearing his shell and stress uniform. order for all uniform connects us with previous generations who fought for our freedom so that we can live in an independent country today. let me just a moment. we can take that independence for granted money. we have to protect it to me as care for the way you with a small child. but that was just shopping of us to say mind, jessica was

the military traditions play a major role in poland? a country with a history of being invaded and occupied on armed forces day the battle of warsaw has commemorated the polish victory over soviet troops and 1920 parades are held throughout the country. it's also a chance for the nation to demonstrate its military readiness. apparent military troops, march side by side with the army. this will probably be coming is last time marching as a member or of shallots. but the army has accepted him, and in a few weeks he'll be sworn in as a professional soldier. he can hardly wait, though he's not allowed to reveal any details about the unit, he'll be joining the thing is up, so there are always

a threat. so still about such you have to keep an eye on everything, the extra and what types of things develop. yeah, these are frequently the future of our army. looks good and level of trust that we have a modern military that's moving forward with the size of some my journey began to show that i'm only about an hour we'll be serving in the polish army scheme. but yes, but for me it isn't that you all but service and being ready to serve means to be aware of your g 3. it's got the of, of, of things you'll sacrifice, but also the things you'll gain. what does this culture the coming to has no reason to worry about his career prospects? despite a change of government in 2023 defense spending look set to continue. for the

polish people's fears of a possible russian invasion have brought a fresh determination to defend their homeland the old friends mean friends can may so defend itself in case of an emergency. we cannot guarantee that we could protect munich frankfurt. berlin can't do it. faced with rushes over against ukraine, the rose, grace's ministry line shows weakness can may so alter its members suspicion protection and security basically depends on 90 percent on the us basic were attacked. what the alliance really close round

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