The head of the Department for Personnel and Mobilisation within the General Staff, Major General Iulian Daniliuc, stated on Wednesday that attendance at the mobilisation exercise for reservists in the Bucharest-Ilfov area exceeded 80%.
„MOBEX 25 was organised between 13 and 20 October in Bucharest and Ilfov County with the aim of assessing the capacity for planning, organising and carrying out specific activities for preparing the population, economy and territory for defence, in the event of a partial mobilisation of structures with defence responsibilities in these two administrative units. (…) From the perspective of the participating structures, the exercise achieved its planned objectives,” Major General Daniliuc said in a press conference.
He added that the attendance rate among reservists was over 80%.
„Notification was successfully carried out for 100% of those on the lists received from our colleagues at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, either directly – by handing over the mobilisation order to the reservist, or to a family member if the reservist was not home (spouse, mother, or another person present at the residence), or by posting the order if no one was at home. The attendance rate across the two administrative units was 83% for all structures,” Daniliuc explained.
He pointed out that the Bucharest-Ilfov area lacks firing ranges for training reservists and active-duty soldiers.
„This mobilisation exercise had a particular challenge. In the Bucharest and Ilfov area, there are no firing ranges that can be used for training reservists or active-duty personnel. Therefore, we had to use seven ranges located in the five counties adjacent to Ilfov for training purposes,” the major general said.
He also noted that a unit is declared operational only after a period of several months of training.
„All participating structures have received the human and material resources needed to ensure full operational capability, following an appropriate training period. We must not imagine that once the reservists arrive at their units, the unit is immediately ready for combat. There is a training period of several weeks or even months, depending on the unit’s mission, after which the unit is declared operational or combat-ready,” Daniliuc explained. AGERPRES
