Air Assault Infantry Regiment 1 (Bundeswehr)
9 companies 1 Battery
The Jägerregiment 1 ( JgRgt 1) is a airmobile infantry Association of the Army of the German Army, which is now placed under the tank brigade 21 and is reclassified to battalion size. The preparation of the hunters Regiment 1 was from 2006., The English term for the newly added when one fighter regiment ability to air mobility is Air Cavalry (U.S.) or Air Mobile Infantry, disseminated is also the term Air Assault (air assault ).
The Bundeswehr opted for the reorganization of the Jägertruppe in the 21st century for the location Schwarzenborn ( crumpled ) in the historical room of origin of Jägertruppe. As troops concept first emerged in 1631 in Hesse, the Jägertruppe has been created as a largely autonomous operating elite infantry and is seen as the first modern and still current concept for light infantry troops.
Structure
The Jägerregiment 1 ( JgRgt 1 ) has a current staff authorized strength of 1,800 soldiers. They are divided into a total of nine airmobile companies, divided into response, stabilization and support forces. The Infantry Regiment is a regiment of the Army, but it is not as is traditional organized into battalions, but directly in the following companies:
- Recon Air landing zone reconnaissance group
- Recon Air landing zone reconnaissance group
- Engineer platoon
- Engineer platoon
- Pioniermaschinenzug
- Transport train
- Instandsetzungszug
- Cover Season
- I. Rekrutenzug
- II Rekrutenzug
- III. Rekrutenzug
- JägerEAV - train
The Jägerregiment 1 is stationed for the most part in Schwarzenborn. The 4th, 6th and 9th Company located in Hammelburg. The installation staff consists largely of former members of the dissolved Panzergrenadier Battalion 152 and the dissolved Hunter Training Battalion 353 The peacetime strength of the regiment comprising 1371 soldiers.
Equipment
Rolling stock
- TPz Fuchs
- Dingo 2
- Truck easily, Wolf
- Wiesel 1 education
- TOW carrier
- Carrier 20mm automatic cannon
- Carrier -mounted mortar 120mm
Until the arrival of the Wiesel 2 PzMrs the existing mortar is first loaded on wolves. With the introduction of the Boxer and the ISAF mission is that all hunters companies, EK, available.
Air defense
Stinger
Air transport means
The Jägerregiment 1 has no own helicopter, but is made movable with transport helicopters, the helicopter regiments of the Airmobile Operations Division and is dependent on cooperation with the support helicopters.
Foreign missions
As of March 2008 800 soldiers of the regiment were used as part of KFOR in Kosovo. 2009, the entire Infantry Regiment 1 was moved to Afghanistan and presented the Quick Reaction Force ( QRF ) ( QRF QRF 3 and 4) of the ISAF for the Regional Command North. During this mission, the hunters were involved in intense fighting in the province of Kunduz.
Resolution and reclassification to Battalion 1
The current plans of the Bundeswehr provide for a restructuring of the hunters in the Regiment 1 Battalion 1 will also be located Schwarzenborn ( crumpled ). The federation was dissolved on December 19, 2012 from the air Moving Brigade and placed under the tank brigade 21. On June 30, 2015, the regiment should be formally wound up and from the next day under his new name. In future, the 4th, 6th and 9th Company formally dissolved in Hammelburg. The 10th Company in Black Born to be renamed " training and support company 1". The staff / material of the 9th Company is in the supply battalion 7 in Unna, as are 7 continued at the site Stadtallendorf 4./VersBtl.