Combat Units Of Lithuania's Land Forces

There isn't much depth to this video. I'm really just listing all of the units under the command of Lithuania's Land Forces (Sausumos pajėgos). But for those who don't know anything about the Lithuanian military, it's a decent introduction!
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[@pakoize]

In Lithuania name 'army' is associated with the red army primarily. So to distance ourselves from occupier we decided to call it 'kariuomenė'. Much more Lithuanian (much older and more archaic as well) name compared to Armija, since Soldier - Karys, kariuomenė is a bunch of fellas. Sausumos pajėgos is the land forces of military exclusively and does not include Air or Naval troops (Kariuomenė does not include navy, but for me personally it includes air and ground(most likely I am wrong)). Been enjoying your videos for quite some time. The quality is improving with each video and I am really happy you chose to live here, cheers!

[@eruno_]

sometimes officially "Ginkluotosios Pajėgos" (Armed Forces) is also used.

[@Semtino]

It's not really important, but Lithuania isn't big enough to be considered an army

[@eruno_]

@@Semtino The word "army" does not have size requirement as far as I'm aware. Burkina Faso has an "army" for example. I think it all comes down to tradition.

[@240pixel]

Army vs armed forces comes down to doctrine. Army is both defensive and offensive while armed forces is defensive in nature. And is not designed to project military power outside Lithiuanias borders.

[@mar1usanonimus481]

armija nuo kariuomines skiriasi tik didziu...

[@vytenis4898]

yesterday had a chat with coworker about old lithuanian military (1990s) and how much it has changed . i served 6 years ago and guy served 20 y ago ... from beatings to complete chaos to well organized cog machine ....

[@Laurynas_LTU]

Regarding the voluteers and reservists. These are two different things and we should not confuse them. Conscripts (NPPKT, Nuolatinė privalomoji pradinė karo tarnyba, compulsory military service) after finishing their 9-month conscription service become reservists, are listed as active reserve (aktyvasis rezervas) and within the next 10 years, every 5 years or so (so around twice in 10 years), are called up to do a 2-3-week-long training/refresher. After 10 years they're listed as prepared reserve (parengtasis rezervas) until they're 60 years old. Volunteers (Krašto apsaugos savanorių pajėgos, KASP) are paid "weekend soldiers", serving 1-2 weekends per month, every month. Professional soldiers (PKT, profesinė karo tarnyba, professional military service) serve 40 hours/week, full-time. Volunteers are civilians during the week and serve as soldiers every other weekend. Reservists - twice every 5 years. For a comparison, riflemen (šauliai) (Lithuanian Riflemen's Union (Lietuvos šaulių sąjunga) serve a similar number of days per year as volunteers, but are unpaid and have to buy their own uniform and non-lethal equipment. So, you could say, riflemen are the real volunteers, but in Lithuania we had the professionals and riflemen, so we needed to create something in between. In Lithuania, if you want to be a soldier as part of the Lithuanian national defence forces, but you want to keep your full-time civilian job, you can join KASP volunteers (paid) or combat riflemen (unpaid). If you don't want to be a soldier, but you still want to be part of the defence forces, you can join non-combat riflemen.

[@Alex-pu5lz]

Interesting. Thank you for taking the time to write this comment.

[@MrVolodia19]

With little correction - being riflemens union member gives you right to aquire and keep at home even "mini-volcano", if you have enough physical and financial strenght.

[@Darkseidsolosfiction]

Love from Georgia 🇬🇪🇪🇪🇱🇹🇱🇻

[@dziugasdz9279]

Hello from Vaidotas infantry battalion :D

[@240pixel]

I appreciate the recent series of videos that are related to military service. Seems like after full scale Russian invasion as opposed to hybrid one in 2014 Lithiuanian military is taking major steps to boost its defense capability. I served in Duke Butigeidis Dragoon battalion stationed in Klaipeda back in 2016. And until recently I served in US Army's legendary 10th Mountain division.

[@Liukas642]

How were the Dragoons? I might go to serve there, seems like a pretty good team!

[@240pixel]

@@Liukas642 Back when I was in we had exceptional leaders. Sadly I don't think many are still there. I know our BC went to work in Brigade HQ. If you end up being there tell S6 in HQ I said hi lol

[@eruno_]

interesting to point out that "King Mindaugas Mechanized infantry Hussar Battalion" which belongs to "Mechanised Infantry Brigade Iron Wolf" will be reorganised into full tank battalion when Leopard 2 tanks will arrive from Germany.

[@Semtino]

You need to chill like with everyone else. The tanks aren't even in contract yet, so it could even be cancelled since there's a lot of pushback.

[@eruno_]

@@Semtino The agreement is already signed and no political force opposes it. It isn't getting "cancelled". Especially considering that General Rupšys himself brought that up to Americans while visiting US as an example of Lithuania strengthening its defence.

[@Semtino]

​​​​@@eruno_we'll see when the contract is going to be ready to be signed. Otherwise, there can be a lot of changes since elections are just around the corner, and there's definitely uncertainty, Rupšys is also going to resign in 4 months with the same or newly elected president. There's plenty of critique coming from reserve commanders and soldiers which some politicians publickly picking that up and seeding doubts about this. So this is very much a political decision so having cautious "optimism" is overall recommended.

[@magma2680]

jesus fkin christ where are we gonna get the space for it lol but I guess that's what the new Company is for. Still it seems pretty insane to switch from mechanised infantry to infantry to tank batallion.

[@magma2680]

also can you link the agreement?

[@averagejoe7987]

The change to the term land forces happens for the same reason why the war ministry is called defense ministry nowadays. It's also the same reason nobody starts wars nowadays but liberations and other euphemisms. You don't want to be perceived as the agressor as this could have more severe repercussions. Happens all over the world.

[@OMLT2010]

Thank you for this video. Is it possibile to make a extra video from the NATIONAL DEFENCE VOLOUNTEER FORCES ?

[@ALRWss]

What about the Aukštaitija reserve light infantry brigade? Some of its units are regular. The brigade was recently activated for a training exercise last year.

[@LithuaniaExplained]

Thanks for letting me know. I was working off of the information on Padaliniai section of Sausumos pajėgos and it didn’t appear… kariuomene.lt/pajegos-ir-kariniai-vienetai/sausumos-pajegos/padaliniai/22904

[@Laurynas_LTU]

That's our third brigade that's only "on paper" right now, because it's not fully formed. But if we start a general conscription, form a tank batallion with upcoming Leopards and finish forming our division, the third brigade will become a normal brigade (a division consists of 3-4 brigades).

[@mantasragulis9227]

You should make some corrections in the video. When You announce Duke Margiris infantry battalion (4:26) You are actually showing Artillery battalion formation - the flag is with crossed cannons, which means it is BG Motiejus Peciulionis Arty BN ;)

[@12ironmonths12]

Lietuva ❤❤❤

[@magma2680]

7:28 speaking of the Iron Wolf Brigade, although its fairly controversial, Algirdas Batallion based in Rukla is generally known currently as the "hardest" in both senses of the word, known by many conscripts as possibly the worst place to be placed since there's plenty of stories about how strict they are and how much they tend to excel.

[@LithuaniaExplained]

Ohh interesting! Thanks for answering the question at the end of the video. 😁

[@traumvonhaiti]

I read Belarus has recently relocated its 19th mechanized brigade towards Oshmiany just 12km away from Lithuanian border for some kind of exercises. OTOH, Vilnius is 20km away from that border which is slightly more than the distance between Kyiv and Hostomel. There are no major obstacles (like Irpin river) which can be used to stop the attacker. I am pretty sure Lithuanian High Command know his already. So I'm wondering how they are preparing to defend the capital in the event of an invasion.

[@still3]

In a certain context, an army is a unit of measurement, depending on a nations military doctrine can range from 10k and up to 300k military personnel. Region theater is in the millions..

[@TindaIPSC]

That is field army

[@bishopofsahs]

My cousins family is from Lithuania it would be on her mother side she told me that town doesn’t exist anymore apparently the Russians stole it when they left I could’ve been around 1917 when they did that bolshevik resolution

[@SebasTheNoble]

Lithuania mentioned !!! RAAAH

[@DZIONIS333]

Nu ir kam tu rodai , apie LT , db visi zino kas kur tarnauja ir kuo uzsiema, taip ar taip mes gausim malku (jei tai ivyks) kol neateis rimti Nato , kam viesinti visas musu strategija, kai priesas nezino ka turim , priesas nezino ka daryt , o db iskarto raketa ant kareiviniu

[@JohnSmith-fv3zg]

:)))) Kam reikia, visi ir taip viską žino. Jei jis priėjo prie šios info, vadinasi ji vieša.

[@magma2680]

gal niekad neziurejai ant google maps bet as galiu kaip paprastas juozas pritraukti satelito vaizdus and Karaliaus Mindaugo Husaru Batallijona sia akimirka ir pamatyt kada pastatytos naujos kareivines, kur viskas yra bei matyt is facebook'o visi ideti vaizdeliai ir sukarpyt viska. Cia vieno zmogaus darbas ir bei to - civilio. Vienas kambarys Rusu informacijos surinkimo specialistu jau siu metu turi daugiau nei tiek informacijos galiu garantuot.

[@Pet_Hedgehog]

no no no, we use the word "kariuomene" insterad of "armija" as the word army is indicative of its size and we do not reach the troop number required for our military to be considered an army.

[@LithuaniaExplained]

It’s interesting to see that neighboring Latvia has named their official social media accounts as “Latvijas Armija”

[@Pet_Hedgehog]

@@LithuaniaExplained yeah lol, while i was a conscript they took this really seriously and if youd call it an army they would get you to do quite a bit of push ups

[@LithuaniaExplained]

Ohh very interesting!

[@puviz]

Too bad that you got no numbers, cause they would be laughable😂 As Blinken said we would have to hold out for 2 weeks by ourself before nato engages in case of war, that is not happening 😇

[@eruno_]

Lithuania could easily defend for 2 weeks, especially considering there are already Americans and Germans stationed there. Not to mention Lithuanian military is increasing conscription and modernising military equipment. Lithuania is bordered by NATO members such as Poland and by sea Sweden, it will never be alone.

[@ugnikalnis]

Finland Has in Reserve who can Fight 900+k Solders n it's not Pro Army... Putin Afraid to start a war, but we should not ignore him.

[@magma2680]

@@eruno_ with Sweden's and Finland's entry, we no longer have to worry about the suwalki problem as Gotland is both a supply hub and a force projection hub that would easily negate any conventional forces coming from kaliningrad. What needs more focus now is the eastern border which is where the focus will undoubtedly shift to now, considering there are Belarussians just over a few dozen kilometers from Vilnius.

[@Visterox]

Lithuania military??? xaxxaxaxa. they never have war never have experience... military about nothing

[@sitoom]

Hahaha, why are you so dumb?

[@Middlefinger_Michael]

VATA detected.

[@LitNoah]

maybe because our government is not fascist and does not invade foreign countries??

[@Middlefinger_Michael]

Kajus Kasauskas esi bailys visame gražume.Tu ne tik,kad pirmas,su visais seimūnais neštus mėsas iš Lietuvos-tu esi dar blogesnis nei anie 141 sėdintis seime,nes jau senai nebegyveni Lietuvoje ir postringauji apie dalykus,kurie tau aplamai yra nesuvokiami kaip žmogui.Trumpiau tariant esi dvasios ubagėlis.

[@ddddd175]

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