We would be ashamed to sit in barracks while the flood floods Lower Silesia. We felt relieved erstwhile on Tuesday we could go for action and aid residents of flooded towns – says the general student. Raphael Bezar. Podchorzów Academy of Land Forces in Wrocław have been working for respective days to save their city from large water.
Podchorzyż of the Academy of Land Army side by side with the villagers and firefighters from the local OS strengthen the shafts in the Lany.
Such as he – candidates for officers – in the College Military Task Force there are over half a thousand. In the compositions of respective operating groups together with their commanders and officers from the teaching staff since Tuesday, they have been continuously active in flood action. They are under the command of the 16th Wrocław Territorial Defence Brigade.
During this time, they left many times in an emergency, where the water tried to break the flood ramps. The most serious task they received is to support the defence of the village of Łany in the municipality of Czernica pod Wrocław. There the water is inactive soaked through the shafts and each leak must be immediately clogged with sandbags.
Background past mission
None of the subjects active in the action can remember this, they were not yet in the planet at the time, but the sub-Wroclaw Lawns are 1 of the symbols of the 1997 flood of the millennium. The leading flood action then planned to break the shafts in this village to drain excess water from Oder. This was to save Wrocław from flooding. erstwhile the bomb squad began planting explosives to make a teardrop in the shafts, dramatic scenes occurred. The villagers protested the plans to flood their towns. There was a clash between civilians and the military and police. Eventually, the authorities turned their backs on their idea, the shafts in the Benes were not interrupted. The remainder of this communicative we know...
Film: Czernica Municipality Office
Events from 27 years ago inactive function in public awareness. Residents remember them perfectly and inactive feel remorse for the military. “In 1997, the military wanted to flood us...” recalls Jarosław Jagielski, the mayor of Czernica Municipality. “It saved us now and we are very grateful for it,” he adds. The same - sacrificing service of the subjects helped rebuild the local community’s assurance in the military.
Nearly a 100 people were assigned to action in the Laaries. A shoulder-to-shoulder with villagers and firefighters from local OS strengthen the shafts. – Our soldiers work from morning to evening – says Major Błażej Krupa, Deputy Commander of the University Military Task Force. The officer explains that during the night, people return to college and, after a fewer hours of rest, study back on the shafts.
Film: Czernica Municipality Office
The villagers are very grateful to the army. erstwhile we work, the women from the village bring us food and even cake of their own baking. These are very touching moments that make us arrogant that we have managed to save their village,” says Szer. Bezara. “They are large people who have done large work in our municipality,” says Jarosław Jagielski. If it wasn't for them... If the water broke the shafts, not only the Lany would be flooded, but besides a large part of the municipality – he notes.
Since Tuesday, more than 500 AWLs and soldiers have been at the disposal of the commander of 16 BOT from Wrocław, who coordinates military operations in this area. At that time, in addition to defending the village of Lany, the operating groups with sub-chambers in the warehouse were leaving in many different places threatened by flooding. Soldiers raised or sealed shafts, among others, in the Wrocław settlement Pracze and around the sewage treatment plant. They went to Romanów close Kątów Wrocławskie and to Kątów Wrocławskie itself, erstwhile the sewage treatment plant was threatened with flooding.
The university's Military Task Force is composed of subjects of all yearbooks from all fields of study. – We have signals that many of our 5th year's subjects, who are presently conducting command practices in units across the country, are besides taking part in flood action in the formations of subdivisions issued by these units – says Major Roksana Borowska, the Academy's press spokesman.
– So far, with the forces of our group in various places of Wrocław and surrounding towns, we have increased floodbanks in a full of respective kilometres, as assessed by Colonel Marek Kobyliński, commander of the University Military Task Force, and all day the commander of the 1st School Battalion. The officer adds that the flood action is inactive ongoing and the podchoracies will rise further kilometers of shafts and halt water in many places.
What are the moods among people? There's nothing to say about morale and engagement of our subjects. They ask themselves to participate in the next task as shortly as the order of departure comes – said Colonel Kobyliński.
