National defense program VAM to be introduced in schools and technical schools of Latvia

In Latvia, a program has been approved that deals with the basics of military training for pupils and students. This is a national defense program (abbreviation in Latvian - VAM), which implies teaching Latvian teenagers the basics of military service and related knowledge, skills and abilities.

Classes under the VAM National Defense Program are scheduled to begin in 2024. At the same time, as noted by representatives of the Latvian military department, training on national defense will be carried out in every secondary school, as well as in secondary specialized educational institutions (technical schools, colleges), and will cover at least 30 thousand people a year.

It is stated that classes for Latvian students will be conducted exclusively on a voluntary basis, with the possibility of field trips to camps. There, as noted, children will be taught the basics of medical training, talk about military service, and "instill leadership qualities."

In addition, it is noted that among the classes there will be lessons on cyber threats - with a story about how to counter such threats.
Program representative:

Our older generation remembers the Soviet lessons (CWP), when it was necessary to disassemble a Kalashnikov assault rifle or recognize enemy military equipment. This is no longer relevant. The task of VAM is to prepare a loyal citizen who is ready to defend the state.

The Latvian military department indicated that the first trainings with pupils and students are already being held - in a distance learning option.

The VAM program is aimed at high school students and 1st-2nd year students in public schools of secondary vocational education. The training applies to both boys and girls.

Commenting on the photos of Latvian guys and girls who were previously involved in the national defense program, users drew attention to their chevron (first photo to the material):

And on the chevrons they have a stylized dollar sign, I suppose? Then it is clear that they are being prepared to defend ...

Comments

[semenov]

Teaching VAM ... I immediately remembered about the LADIES

[Civil]

Strangely, in Russia no one forms the territorial defense forces.

[Victor_B]

Quote: Civil

Strangely, in Russia no one forms the territorial defense forces.

... from the attack of the Tribaltic!
Uzhoss !!!
(But they are ready for a NATO attack from the territory of the Baltic states!
Only the Tribals won't see it ...)

[YOUR]

No one else besides them?

[Flooding]

Territorial Defense Forces are not for large imperial states.
Such forces will have a rather destructive centrifugal character.
But useful skills for survival and self-defense of young people would not hurt.

[nnm]

This is not true. Forming. Already 10 years ago ...

[nnm]

VAM's job is to prepare loyal a citizen who is ready to defend the state.

In other words, to drive into children's heads the horror stories that Russia is about to attack and not dare to even doubt it! What is the Hitler Youth reminds ...

[apro]

Quote: nnm

What is the Hitler Youth reminds ...

And about the pioneers and Komsomol members.

Quote: nnm

In other words, to drive into children's heads the horror stories that Russia is about to attack and not dare to even doubt it!

A sovereign country recognized by the Russian Federation has the right. They solve their problems using accessible methods. The Russians abandoned them in 1991. They replaced the unity of the country with sausage and jeans. And now there are enemies everywhere. You were trying to achieve this by destroying the USSR. .general ...
Today the Russian Federation is one of the capitalist countries with the same aspirations. Something to grab and squeeze.
And now to your Russians

Quote: nnm

drive horror stories into children's heads

that there are enemies all around, these are normal capitalistic methods. to stand for your master ... and paraffin someone else's.

[sniperino]

Quote: apro

After all, the Russians abandoned them in 1991, replaced the unity of the country with sausage and jeans.

The hamsters got angry and began to reveal their rat nature: they were thrown from the action yesterday like snot from a finger.

[apro]

Quote: sniperino

The hamsters got angry and began to reveal their rat nature: they were thrown from the action yesterday like snot from a finger.

And in Russian ??? I do not catch your thoughts ... too creative.

[sniperino]

Quote: apro

And in Russian ??? I do not catch your thoughts

No wonder. Not only did you not learn to write in Russian, but you understand poorly.

[apro]

You are not polite.

[sniperino]

Quote: apro

You are not polite.

But fair.

[apro]

Quote: sniperino

But fair.

But I can't see this point-blank.

[sniperino]

Quote: apro

But I can't see this point-blank.

Strabismus moralis (I see here, I don’t see here)

[nnm]

Everything is so ... with only one difference - neither the pioneers nor the Komsomol members were hammered into their heads that the SS divisions are heroes, that some Balts are a nation of collaborators and therefore we will infringe on their rights and give them the status of non-citizens, did not knock out hatred of any country or nation, everything was exactly the opposite. Yes, and with the fact that we abandoned them during the collapse of the USSR - you are lying again - no, exactly the opposite, the Baltic States staged an armed coup even before the collapse of the union

[apro]

Quote: nnm

And with the fact that we abandoned them during the collapse of the USSR - you are lying again -

What are you saying ... these Russian screams that the Russians fed the entire USSR on in unabated and today. The thought of the destruction of the USSR began with russkih.osnova rotten.
The pioneers and Komsomol members were trained to defend the USSR. And that was normal. Yes, under their own installations. Russians today are preparing to protect their master.

[nnm]

Quote: apro

Pioneers and Komsomol members were trained to defend the USSR.

Exactly! They did not call someone an enemy, did not teach to hate him from the cradle, did not humiliate the citizens of this country on a national basis, etc. This is the difference. But, apparently, you will not understand this.
And about who fed whom - the easiest way is to look at the balance of trade in the republics.

[apro]

Quote: nnm

did not teach to hate him from the cradle, did not humiliate the citizens of this country on a national basis

They were preparing against the bourgeois ... and today for the Russians it is a nationality. What they write about Ukraine today. About the Baltic states. Transcaucasia. In no way today's Russians do not differ from their opponents. And they also honor their SS men. They erect monuments.

Quote: nnm

But, apparently, you do not understand this

I am a Soviet. Any nationalism is not acceptable to me. I do not understand how a Russian Nazi differs from a Baltic Nazi.

[nnm]

Well, again, composing or lying. I don’t know what exactly. Persecution on the basis of class was abolished even under Stalin. Well, what do they write about Ukraine and the Balts? What do they deserve, or are they making a mistake? At the same time, mind you, most often a clause is made about the distinction between people and power. Or what should we write about the zigging non-brothers in Lithuania and Ukraine? Or what should they say about their authorities, which all support it?

[apro]

Quote: nnm

I don’t know what exactly.

Well said.

Quote: nnm

Persecution on the basis of class was abolished even under Stalin.

So it is under the USSR. and for its citizens.

Quote: nnm

So what do they write

And they write what the Russian master will tell you, what is profitable for him, is beneficial to the Russian master, that there would be enemies all around, so that the Russians would not ask themselves a question. Who belongs to the Russian Federation.

[Pete mitchell]

Quote: nnm

they were abandoned during the collapse of the USSR - you are lying again - no, exactly the opposite, the Baltic states staged an armed coup even before the collapse of the union

Do you call the events in Vilnius a coup? So everything seemed to end there in favor of the Union. But it was not enough for someone to act harshly in Latvia, although the Pskov brigade was kept in readiness for two days. But then the marked merged the Riga OMON, and the ebn later allowed the Latvian prosecutor's office to detain the fighters on the territory of the Russian Federation.
As there was no intelligible policy in relation to former relatives, so there is no, but it would be worth considering.

[NDR-791]

The task of VAM is to prepare a loyal citizen who is ready to defend the state.
Loyalty is not from that opera, or is the translation not accurate? Loyalty is when you stand at the side of the road like a gopher and do not shine while enemy tanks are driving along the road. Well, they know better. And so everyone rushed to master our experience of preparation? But they will not succeed, for this they need a competent military instructor - not only to disassemble the AKM, but also to teach the military command language

[stalki]

Loyalty is not from that opera, or is the translation not accurate? Loyalty is when you stand at the side of the road like a gopher and do not shine while enemy tanks are driving along the road.

So it is supposed NATO tanks will plow their roads, and they will not interfere with them. For us the enemy, for them transit.

[Prisoner]

They seem to be loyal to NATO. They say they can do whatever they want, but you kids bear with it. So, if the Russians are with their factories, with plans for the development of your culture, with local literature, cinema (such as the Riga Film Studio, Tallinnfilm, etc.), then immediately into the "forest brothers". And destroy-destroy. Well, shoot by itself from around the corner. "Europe", fig!

[Cowbra]

The idea itself is not bad, the question is how to implement it. And knowing the hysterical Russophobia of spratas, it is clear that they are being implemented in the form of the Hitler Youth

[sniperino]

Quote: Cowbra

it is clear that they are being implemented in the form of the Hitler Youth

Latvians still have experience with CWP and, possibly, the form of the lesson will resemble it. But the content is 100% Hitler Youth

[Mavrikiy]

National defense program VAM to be introduced in schools and technical schools of Latvia

Sclerosis, they have forgotten everything, now they remember .... NVP (initial military training) in the USSR. It's all about the "depth and breadth" of the subject program.

will be carried out exclusively on a voluntary basis, with the possibility of field trips to the camps.

Have they worn out the Boy Scouts already?

[Lipchanin]

Quote: Mavrikiy

Sclerosis, they have forgotten everything, now they remember .... NVP (initial military training) in the USSR.

Soon Zarnitsa will be remembered

[Serpet]

Quote: Mavrikiy

everyone has forgotten, now they remember ... NVP (initial military training) in the USSR

We, too, would not hurt to return the CWP. Let's hope that the management will do it in the future - it will only benefit.

[Lipchanin]

Already a funeral service? So young

[NDR-791]

Already a funeral service?
Lesson topic: How to properly wrap yourself in a sheet and crawl to the cemetery?

[Lipchanin]

Well, something like this

[Asad]

Unmatched humor!

[Lipchanin]

Just relax a little.
And then everything is serious.

[Dikson]

I don’t see anything bad in this .. As for me, instead of the lessons of the priest’s and the incomprehensible OBZH, it would also be useful for ours to return the lessons of the CWP .. With shooting, field training and acquaintance with real military equipment. I have a summer military field camp for children here in my city .. - so many people are asking for there that there are not enough places, .. both boys and girls ..

[Pereira]

I have never heard that sacrifice was a national Latvian trait. Has anyone had close contact with them? Tell us.

[Pereira]

Thanks for your help. I've heard something like that, but eyewitness testimony is more valuable.
I also expected something like that. Loyalty is a very slippery word.

[Bolt cutter]

The same white people as the Russians. The informers are beaten in the face, they support those they deem necessary. They don't think about any punitive expeditions.

Latvian loves with ear, but suffers from belly

This is a Russian proverb. Translate into Latvian Here, it does not work out smoothly. Yes, they also ate all the hedgehogs

[Dikson]

However, Ilyich in Smolny was guarded by Latvian riflemen .. So ... there are enough scoundrels among any people ..

[NDR-791]

summer military field camp for children .. - so many people asks there that there are not enough places .. both boys and girls ..
However, it is in demand. And it is right! And so at least some TRP norms were returned, though almost at will. But that's already good.

[Guru]

At one time, the CWP was banned under the pretext of demilitarizing society, then it was renamed OBZH. Now CWP is more relevant than ever.

[zwlad]

We must renew the CWP program in our schools. Even the Balts got it.

[Egoza]

Quote: zwlad

We must renew the CWP program in our schools. Even the Balts got it.

Only you need to name it differently. And then again the Soviet legacy! For example, democratic CWP or Let's Be Ready to Meet Partners of BHVP .... suggest your options

[zwlad]

Does the Soviet legacy bother you? I'm not there. Why reinvent the wheel? It is not necessary to sweep aside all the Soviet frenzied.
And my opinion.
Every student should be able to shoot and know how to disassemble and clean a machine gun.
How the grenade works, how and in which direction to throw it. Well, other basics.

[Egoza]

Quote: zwlad

Does the Soviet legacy bother you? I'm not there. Why reinvent the wheel?

Personally, I have always admired the Soviet legacy. Only the current authorities are unlikely to miss such a name. So all claims to your Ministry of Education

[Lipchanin]

Got Little, Get More
MPPE
Who's Next, Come
PCB
Don't Touch, Uroyu
NTU

[aszzz888]

There, as noted, children will be taught

how to dig caches!

[steelmaker]

I would also renew the CWP in our schools. Now in schools they do not teach, they bring information. Goonies are being prepared, consumers. Competent authorities are not needed, they begin to think. And those trained in military affairs are dangerous, they can resist. Therefore, they are doing the right thing, but it does not threaten us.

[Ros 56]

What kind of resistance are you talking about? What we were taught at one time - disassembly and assembly of the machine gun, shooting at the shooting range from it, 5 rounds each. Shooting in the gym from a small car. Walk in formation with grief in half, studied the consequences of the impact of a nuclear explosion and other NSRs and ways of sheltering and protecting from them. The girls studied sanitary and first aid methods. But this is all for your own survival. What the hell is resistance. It was all in the late 60s - early 70s.

[sniperino]

Quote: Ros 56

The girls studied sanitary and first aid methods.

For Europe, this is intolerant "sexism". Latvian girls will be trained on cats to gouge out the enemy's eyes and cut stars out of his skin. Gretta T., I think, will not object to such a moral and psychological preparation: cats are not even a giraffe.

[Ros 56]

In the film Purgatory these creatures were shown, they ended badly. As far as I know from my friends who have been in Chechnya, they ended up there without bothering with moral remorse.

[Dikson]

We also studied dosimeters and devices for determining chemical contamination, we classified OV ... Even in the OZK they dressed up at school ..))) In the NVP class, apart from a few small girls and Margolin, there were two PPSh, AKS and AK-74 .. I still remember a sergeant with two guys brought carbines to get acquainted with the materiel .. such are the lessons of the CWP ...))

[Ros 56]

We also studied all this, just did not go into details.

[Ros 56]

It's a good thing, even though young people will be taken out into the fresh air, into nature. And there is no need to teach to fight the Russians, it will be expensive and very painful. Over the past 30 years, so much dirt has been poured on us that it will come back to haunt.

[Avior]

Game Zarnitsa with a field camp, like a scout.
The idea, in principle, is correct and useful for modern youth in any country, so that they can get out of smartphones.
Only such a place is needed so that the smartphone does not take the Internet :)))

[Poetry]

It's strange. I thought they would be taught the basics of counter-guerrilla warfare, punitive operations against civilians, and so on.

[Petro_tut]

New Forest Brothers Courses

[prior]

Under the photograph with the Latvian woman wrapped in foil, write:
"Sprats in Latvian" in a package in its own juice.

[APASUS]

Our older generation remembers the Soviet lessons (CWP), when it was necessary to disassemble a Kalashnikov assault rifle or recognize enemy military equipment. This is no longer relevant. The task of VAM is to prepare a loyal citizen who is ready to defend the state.

Prepare a citizen to knock on a neighbor. Are the telephones in this book attached?
Attached, I don't even doubt it!

[Trapp1st]

National defense program VAM to be introduced in schools and technical schools of Latvia

This will greatly help clean toilets in Europe.

[ljoha_d]

This should be introduced in Russian schools, in the USSR there was such training.

[rotmistr60]

Our older generation remembers the Soviet lessons (CWP)

Therefore, they introduce the program remembering and taking as a basis the CWP of Soviet schools. This also fits into "preparing a loyal citizen", that is, ideology. It's just interesting what and how will they teach to counter cybersecurity? Complicate passwords on your computer.

[A song]

And always someone else's form. Now American is in vogue. before her, the Soviet 70 years were worn. to secular German. And so dahlia ..

[Runway]

In principle - the right decision. To give some basic military training to young people, to drive them into the field.
Taking into account the lack of ideology at the state level (Russia is in the same "basket"), it is quite an attempt for adolescents to feel their connection with the state of which they are citizens.

[Asad]

I don't give a damn about how in Latvia, but in Russia we need to create such camps, a good school of life! It doesn't matter what you call it, Yunarmeytsy, or pioneers. I watched the chronicle about the Hitler Youth, in principle, apart from the ugly ideology, a normal example.