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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 ".
Additionally, the 152nd Jaeger brigade was sent to storm enemy frontline positions. As a result, about 500 soldiers were reported to have been missing in action in 3 days. The brigade is later sent to the Pokrovsk offensive, aiding other Ukrainian units defend their positions. Thus, the 152nd Jaeger brigade suffered significant casualties due ...
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.
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. [1] [6] [7] As of September 2024, the brigade was still in Donetsk Oblast, defending the front against the Russian offensive.
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 ...
Exercise Dynamic Front has been organised by the United States Army’s 56th Artillery Command, but this is Finland’s first time hosting a military training exercise of this size since joining ...
Jäger Battalion 24 (Jägerbataillon 24), in Lienz [30] Staff Company (Stabskompanie) 1st Mountain Jäger Company (1. Jägerkompanie hochgebirgsbeweglich), (Note: doubles as Cadre-Presence Unit) 2nd Mountain Jäger Company (2. Jägerkompanie hochgebirgsbeweglich), in St. Johann in Tirol; Jäger Company (Militia) (Jägerkompanie)