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The major training areas are located near the following towns:


 * Biedrusko, Borne, Czarne, Drawsk Pomorskie, Goldap, Kołobrzeg, Orzysz, Sulecin, Torum, Ustka

All but Goldap and Orzysz are in the northwestern quarter of the country. The ground forces school system includes training facilities for all arms and services and offers instruction at every level. The major components of line units maintain their own schools, in which politically reliable and promising candidates from the conscript ranks are trained as NCOs, technicians, and specialists. Outstanding men from the unit schools, as well as specially qualified civilians who volunteer, are sent to technical service schools and officer candidate schools. There are branch specialist and advanced courses for officers and Ministry of National Defense schools for senior officers who are to serve at higher combined-arms levels.

Reserve military service, obligatory to the age to 50, involves periodic refresher training, particularly for the younger men. There are no known Polish reserve units, but reservists are liable to be called to active duty periodically for 5-day mobilization exercises or for up to 3 months for training. Reservists are usually trained in separate groups; those assigned to line units are usually placed in sub-units specifically organized to train reservists.

4. Logistics

The ground forces materiel classification system generally parallels that of the Soviet Ground Forces, and thus the principle of command (as opposed to staff) control over logistic support is followed. The major categories of supply are General Supplies (rations, clothing and equipment, fuels and lubricants, medical and veterinary supplies, and transport vehicles); Ordnance (weapons and ammunition); Engineer; Signal and Communications; Chemical; and Armored (including tank and assault-gun armament, which are not counted under Ordnance).

In peacetime the Military District Chief of Quartermaster Service is responsible for logistic support of units within the military district. Supplies are issued from military district and Ministry of National Defense depots to the requisitioning units. Unit stocks are held at all tactical echelons down to battalion.

There is little direct evidence concerning planning for wartime supply and movement. The methods employed probably would be based on the Soviet principle of moving supplies forward from higher to lower units, from rear to front.

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