Land Forces Juozas Lukša Training Center (LF JLTC)

Land Forces Juozas Lukša Training Center is the element that flexibly, effectively, on demand and having resources warranties Lithuanian Armed Forces Land Forces specialist training. Center started its activity on 14 December, 2010. From 1 July 2011 the centre became a separate Land Forces element.

Moments of the Opening Ceremony of Training Center

held in Rukla on 14 December 2010, pictures by Capt Mindaugas Neimontas

Land Forces Juozas Lukša Training Center is stationed in Rukla (Jonava district) Lithuanian Hetman Jonušas Radvila Training Regiment. About 40 soldiers serve in the Training Center; they were attached to Training center from other Land Forces elements.

Courses in the Training Center are taught by center experts and visiting lecturers from Land Forces elements. Each course is composed from instrumental teaching package: weapons, engineering and other teaching means. In the future the center intends to cooperate with Pennsylvania National Guard, Swedish, Danish and Baltic military educational institutions.

Lithuanian membership in NATO and the EU, integration processes, Lithuanian Armed Forces transformation, rejection of compulsory military service and economical burden have conditioned the necessity to reform military training in Lithuanian Armed Forces. One of the Training Center tasks is to optimize the training center structures and to ensure the specialists' training at the Training Center. Another task is to ensure optimal use of the infrastructure, to concentrate elements and military units into integral military territories and to use common administrative, material storage, social welfare accommodations and territories.

Contacts

Lithuanian Great Hetman Jonušas Radvila Training Regiment

Barracks No. 3, 5 floor.

Rukla, LT- 55025 Jonavos distr.
Tel. + 370 37 30 77 45
Email: rimantas.cerniauskas@mil.lt