As instructors shout commands, dozens of students taking part in a pilot Czech army programme aimed at boosting fledgling enlistment numbers crawl through forest scrub and learn weapons skills.
Like most former Soviet satellite states now in Nato, the Czech Republic has missed recruitment targets for years and is struggling to maintain troop levels.
Some 14,700 soldiers currently serve in the Czech army, but this number has left units understaffed and unable to reach combat readiness.
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