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Brigadier General Yves Gächter

Commander Armour and Artillery Training Unit

Brigadier Yves Gächter


Brigadier General Gächter is in charge of the Armour and Artillery Training Unit. He is responsible for the basic training of the armour and artillery forces and accountable to the Chief of Training and Education Command.

The armour and artillery recruit, the NCO and officer schools, the command for tests, the military training area in Thun with its mechanised training centre, and the military training area in Bière with its artillery training centre all report to Brigadier General Gächter. Together with his staff, he ensures the further development of the operational doctrine and the technical procedures for the armour and artillery units, and he supports the introduction of new equipment and vehicles.

2022 Brigadier General, commander of the Tank and Artillery Training Unit
2020 Deputy Chief of Staff readiness and training in the staff of the Joint Operations Command
2019 Chief of Staff in the staff of a territorial division
2015 Deputy Chief of Staff training and education in the staff of a territorial region
2013 Colonel GS, Chief of Operations in the staff of a territorial region
2011 Deputy Chief of Staff in the staff of a mechanised brigade
2007 Commander of a combat engineer battalion
2004 Lieutenant Colonel GS
2003 Major GS, General Staff officer operations in the staff of an armoured brigade
1998 Captain, commander of an armoured grenadier company
2020 Deputy Chief of Staff readiness and training in the staff of the Joint Operations Command
2015 Deputy Commander of the Tank and Artillery Training Unit
2013 Commander of the armoured school 21
2010 Senior Course at the NATO Defence College in Rome, Italy
2009 Group leader at the General Staff School, C2 Simulator Command, Armed Forces College
2007 Chief of the training battalion of the armoured schools
2004 US Army Engineer Captains Career Course, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, USA
2001 Unit career officer at the armoured grenadier recruit schools
1997 Swiss Military College, military academy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

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Office address: Armour and Artillery Training Unit
Kaserne
CH-3609 Thun

Office address:

Armour and Artillery Training Unit
Kaserne
CH-3609 Thun

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