Brigadier General Yves Gächter
Commander Armour and Artillery Training Unit

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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Documents
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CV Yves Gächter
09.06.2022 | PDF, 1 Pages, 163 KB