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Tadeusz Kościuszko Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (; 4 or 12 February 174615 October 1817) was a Polish Military engineering, military engineer, statesman, and military leader who then became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and ...

Military University of Land Forces (''Akademia Wojsk Lądowych imienia generała Tadeusza Kościuszki'') is a

Polish Land Forces The Land Forces () are the land forces of the Polish Armed Forces. They currently contain some 110,000 active personnel and form many components of the European Union and NATO deployments around the world. Poland's recorded military history str ...

military university, in

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

, which trains officers to serve in Polish Land Forces units. Established in 2002, its antecedents date back to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Alumni

Włodzimierz Potasiński Włodzimierz Potasiński (31 July 1956 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish military figure, commander-in-chief of the Polish Special Forces. Potasiński was born at Czeladź. He was killed in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash at Smolensk. ...

* Piotr Patalong *

Roman Polko Roman Polko (born November 8, 1962, in Tychy, Poland) is a retired Polish army special forces officer, acting chief of Biuro Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego (Bureau of National Security), former commander of "JW GROM", doctor of military science studie ...

Tadeusz Sapierzyński Colonel Tadeusz Sapierzyński (born 1 April 1958 in Miastko, Poland) is a Polish Army officer, former commander of the special forces unit "GROM", from 2004 until 2006.Pawel Wronski, Gazeta Wyborcza, "Zmiana dowódcy GROM-u", 2004-01-2/ref>''Gazet ...

Zdzisław Żurawski Colonel Zdzisław Żurawski (born November 23, 1954, in Bielawa) is a Polish Army officer. Colonel Żurawski was commander of the special forces unit "GROM" (Thunder) from September 17, 1999, to May 26, 2000. References

Polish Army offic ...

* Kazimierz Gilarski

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