Fundamentals of formation of military applied skills of military officers through sports orientation

Abstract

The article deals with topical issues regarding the improvement of applied military skills of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine based on the use of sports orienteering tools. It is emphasized that regular practical orienteering exercises allow servicemen to confidently move through unfamiliar terrain and overcome various natural obstacles, receive and analyze relevant information, and quickly make decisions in extreme situations. Such military-applied skills are especially important for servicemen of special operations forces, reconnaissance, airborne assault and other special units, which mainly operate in small groups outside the permanent deployment points of military units. On the basis of the analysis of the problems of the organization of military applied training of personnel, the ways of increasing the effectiveness of the educational process of training the skills of orientation in the terrain in the power structures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are presented.