Jarosław Mika (born 31 October 1962) is a

Polish Land Forces The Land Forces () are the land forces of the Polish Armed Forces. They currently contain some 62,000 active personnel and form many components of the European Union and NATO deployments around the world. Poland's recorded military history stret ...

officer who has served as the general commander of Branches of the Armed Forces since 2017.

Biography

Mika was born on 31 October 1962, and he joined the Polish military in 1981 when he joined the Armored Forces Academy in

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

. He graduated in 1985 and joined the 5th Armored Division as a platoon commander, and later battalion commander. He graduated from the

National Defence University of Warsaw The National Defence University of Warsaw ( – AON) was the civil-military highest defence academic institution in Poland, located in Warszawa– Rembertów. In 2016 it was succeeded by the War Studies University. The National Defence Universit ...

in 1993 and was transferred to the Army General Staff. In 2007, Mika served in the Polish Military Contingent in Iraq, after which he was assigned to the

Multinational Corps Northeast Multinational Corps Northeast was formed on 18 September 1999 at Szczecin, Poland, which became its headquarters. It evolved from what was for many years the only multinational corps in NATO, Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland (LAND ...

. He was assigned command of the 20th Bartoszyce Mechanized Brigade in 2011, and also that year was assigned to Afghanistan. He became commander of the

11th Armoured Cavalry Division The 11th "Lubuska" Armoured Cavalry Division ( pl, 11 Lubuska Dywizja Kawalerii Pancernej) is an armoured division of the Polish Land Forces, which traces its history to the formation of the 11th Infantry Division of the Polish Armed Forces in th ...

starting in 2014, when he was a

major general Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

. Still as a major general, he was appointed as general commander of Branches of the Armed Forces on 7 February 2017. He was promoted to a four-star general in November 2019, and was reappointed General Commander for another term in February 2020. During the 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Poland, Mika was diagnosed with the

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on 10 March 2020.

References

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