The Training and Military Education Support Centre "Krtsanisi" (Georgian: წვრთნებისა და სამხედრო განათლების მხარდამჭერი ცენტრი „კრწანისი“) is a major training facility for the military of Georgia and its US Marine Corps partners,[1] located at the Krtsanisi settlement, outside Georgia’s capital city of Tbilisi, at the foothills of the Iaghluja mountainous range.
It is operated by the Georgian Defense Forces General Staff Military Training and Education Command.
[2] Established in April 1997, the unit was known as the Krtsanisi National Training Center (ეროვნული სასწავლო ცენტრი „კრწანისი“) until 2016.
From 2002 to 2007, $6.5 million of GSSOP funds were used to build barracks, classrooms, a dining hall, and other infrastructure at the Krtsanisi centre.
[2] On January 11, 2011, an explosion of a 120 mm mortar shell during artillery drills killed three and injured thirteen soldiers at the Krtsanisi centre.