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This is a list of Jäger units in various national armies. Jäger , or Jaeger , is the German word for " hunter ", and describes a kind of light infantry . [ 1 ] In English the word Jaeger is also translated as " rifleman " or " ranger ".
After this, the unit became officially known as the 152nd Separate Jaeger Brigade (Ukrainian: 152 окрема єгерська бригада, romanized: 152 okrema jehersʹka bryhada), making the brigade the fourth unit of its kind to exist within the Ukrainian Armed Forces, alongside the 13th, 68th, and 71st brigades.
The Jaeger Brigade (Finnish: Jääkäriprikaati; Swedish: Jägarbrigaden) is a unit of the Finnish Army. The unit is located in Sodankylä and Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland, some 130 kilometres (81 mi) north of the Arctic Circle. The brigade trains 2,200 conscripts per year.
During the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive, the brigade took part in the Eastern Ukraine campaign in the Donetsk Oblast, Lyman direction. [5] On 11 June 2023 the brigade, alongside several territorial defence battalions , took the village of Blahodatne marking the first settlement to be liberated by Ukrainian forces during the counteroffensive.
The 71st Jaeger Brigade (Ukrainian: 71-ша окрема єгерська бригада, romanized: 71-sha okrema yeherska bryhada; 71 ОЄБр Military Unit Number A4030) is a air assault light infantry (Jäger) brigade of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces, formed in 2022 in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The brigade, one of the youngest formations to be established in the Ground Forces as a result of the expansion of this service in light of the War in Donbass, was raised in 2015 first as a reserve motorized formation of the Ground Forces Command, which would later be transferred in 2017-18 as part of the 4th Army Reserve Corps, with its first brigade HQ and garrison based in Chernihiv ...
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Jäger Regiment 1 was an air assault infantry regiment of the German Army. While it comes from the old German tradition of Jäger, it was a relatively recently formed air assault formation, established in 2006. The regiment was part of Airmobile Operations Division, and became subordinate to 21st Armoured Brigade on 19 December 2012. [1]