CHKALOVSKY AIRBASE, Moscow region, September 11. /ITAR-TASS/. More than 100,000 men and officers will be engaged in an ad hoc inspection of combat readiness of the troops assigned to Russia’s Eastern Military District, the chief of the Defense Ministry’s inspection workgroup told reporters.

The inspection embraces four armies, the 3rd Command of the Air Force and Air Defense Troops, the command of the Pacific Fleet, as well as the command of Strategic and Military Transport Aviation.

“The component stages of the inspection, which has been ordered by the Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces and which began at 10:00 hours Moscow Standard Time on September 11, envision participation of the combat planning and control agencies at the level of the military district, separate armies and brigades, mechanized infantry and reconnaissance units, signal corps and logistics units, ships, submarines and auxiliary seacraft, as well as the units of Strategic, Military Transport and Frontline Aviation,” Gen Nikolai Bogdanovsky, the chief of the inspection group said.