Silesian Military District

Its history dates back to the aftermath of World War II, when Military District Silesia (Okręg Wojskowy Śląsk) was formed in 1945.

The Silesian Military District Commander-in-Chief position was established in accordance with command of the Polish Army order No.

[citation needed] In November 1973 the District began contributing soldiers to United Nations Emergency Force II, supervising the Egyptian-Israeli truce.

Since then, they have been used in a variety of tasks throughout the world, such as in Egypt, Syria, Namibia Western Sahara, Cambodia Iran, Iraq and countries of the former Yugoslavia.

SCO is one of the two existing military districts, and its area covers close to 143,000 km2 of the country and has a population of around 21 million citizens.

[citation needed] The reorganization of the Polish Armed Forces carried out in the second half of the 1990s and at the beginning of the 2000s meant that it solved many problems regarding military units, including the finalization of the following districts: The only division that has endured the period of restructuring in the Silesian Military District was the 11th Armoured Cavalry Division, which passed to the command of the 2nd Mechanised Corps in Kraków.

Since 2000, soldiers of the district have begun to fulfil their first mission as the members of the military alliance as part of NATO's KFOR in Kosovo.

The district took over the tasks of logistic support, territorial defense, the military administration and fulfillment of all important functions of the host country, which was a novelty in the Polish Armed Forces.

In March 2004, adopted in the subordination of the District 1 Dębliński Regiment Road and Bridge abutment and 10 Logistic Brigade with Opole.