Draft:Cavalry Forces Center

The Armored Cavalry Forces Center, abbreviated as Pussenkav, is a central executive agency directly under the Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army.

The main task of Pussenkav is to carry out weapons development, doctrine development, education development, training training and research and development guidance as well as fostering the functions of cavalry, both traditional horse mounted and armored, in the field of detection, identification, tracking and destruction in order to support the main missions of the Indonesian Army.

Established in 1950, it its responsible for the armored cavalry formations in Army service.

Vision
The Army Cavalry Center is charged with forming reliable, professional and proportional battle-ready Cavalry Troopers through mentoring, education and training work to help them fulfill the principal missions entrusted to the Indonesian Army.

Mission
It's mission is:


 * Training and Graduating Cavalry Troopers who are reliable and able to carry out tasks in various situations and conditions to support the success of the main missions assigned to the Army by the Constitution and laws of the Republic.
 * Its alumni are to be troopers who must be based on the identity of the People's Army, Combatants' Army and National Armed Forces, accompanied by skills in mastering adequate military tactics and techniques, placing the task above all others, knowing that they carry, alongside their servicemen in other arms and specialities, the pride and honor of being fighting soldiers of Indonesia.
 * Training experienced troopers in carrying out their duties in accordance with the duties and responsibilities assigned to them as members of the cavalry corps.
 * Fostering, educating and training troopers in combat quality aspects adapted to the nature of their service.

Brief history
When Indonesia's independence was recognized in 1949 leading to the end of the National Revolution, the only Indonesian Army cavalry elements were volunteer cavalry troops or squadrons operating as mounted infantry as part of infantry divisions and small armored companies armed with ex-Imperial Japanese Army Type 97 Te-Ke tankettes and Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tanks (the first true tanks in Indonesian service), alongside captured Universal Carriers which also provided the nucleus for Indonesian mechanized infantry and ex-British Humber Armoured Cars and Marmon-Herrington Armoured Cars, and as the revolution waged on, a number of captured former Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and Royal Netherlands Army M3 Stuart and M4 Sherman tanks.

Established by then Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army Abdul Haris Nasution on 9 February 1950 - the official Cavalry Day of the Indonesian Army marked since then - within just weeks after Indonesian Army cavalry platoons supported the crushing of the APRA coup d'état, the ACFC/Pusenkav (then the Armored Training Center) has, over many decades, served as the primary training and capacitation instition of the Indonesian cavalry and armored cavalry, both the traditional horse mounted cavalry and the modern armored elements of today. The establishment of the Center coincided with the handover of more RNEIA and RNA armored equipment to the young army, and its first Commandant of Cavalry appointed in the person of LTC (Cav) KGPH Soerjo Soejarso - later appointed the first Superintendent of the Indonesian Military Academy. The center's first training staff were both veterans of the revolution (esp. those of the pioneer cavalry troops, including alumni of the Dutch Koninklijke Militaire Academie) and newly trained officers who were given the chance to train overseas in modern armored tactics.

Alumni of the Center formed the backbone of the young armored forces that fought in the regional rebellions of the 1950s and later on Operation Trikora, while being on standby during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation.

In 1953 the Mounted Detachment was raised to continue the heritage of traditional horse mounted cavalry dating back to the Hindu empires of old. Since the 2000s the ACFC is directly responsible for the operational duties of this unit.

Following Operation Trikora a brief period of Westernization of Soviet-produced weapons systems given the pro-Western atittude of the Army would lead the center to train troopers in the BDRM-1 scout car for recon ops and BTR-40 and BTR-152 APCs. These would be joined by the US-made V150 Commando later in the 60s.

Training Regiment of the Cavalry Centre
The Training Regiment comprises all the cavalry troopers from battalions and companies within the army, either as officers or non-commissioned personnel that train to complete specialty studies within the center and the attached Cavalry Training Center of the Indonesian Army Doctrine, Education and Training Development Command. Operational control of the regiment is under the Director, Cavalry Weapons (Direktur Pembinaan Kesenjataan), a brigadier general, who reports to the commanding general, a major general of the Army appointed by the Chief of Staff.

Troopers who graduate the courses are awarded with the prestigious black beret before formal completion, the beret is worn when serving in an armored formation following graduation.

In addition to Army troopers, Marine Corps servicemen operating armored vehicles receive their training in the Center and the CTC. However they wear their magenta berets.

Organization
Cavalry Squadrons/Tank Battalions (Batalyon Kavaleri) and Cavalry Reconnaissance Troops (Kompi Kavaleri), alongside Armored Cavalry Detachments (Detasmen Kavaleri) constitute the majority of armored and tank cavalry formations of the Indonesian Army.

Alongside the squadrons and troops, the Army has an additional cavalry brigade, the 1st (Armored) Cavalry Brigade (Kodam Jayakarta, formerly 1st Infantry Division Kostrad).

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