Incentives of the German Ministry of Defense to recruit young personnel for the army

– International news – Tasnim News Agency According to “NTV” of Germany, the German army is facing a crisis of personnel shortage these days and young They don’t have the security to fill the posts and positions in this institution.

In the continuation of this article, it is stated: In this situation, it is unlikely that the plan to return to compulsory military service will be implemented again. Instead, Boris Pistorius, the Minister of Defense of Germany, has announced that he wants to convince young people to do this with positive motivations.

According to the weekly “Spiegel” “Boris Pistorius”, the Federal Minister of Defense of Germany for the first time Barr presented the basic principles of his plans for military service.

According to this report, the model of recruitment of young people should be largely voluntary and return to compulsory military service, where young people can serve even against their will. There will be no conscription.

Instead, the German Ministry of Defense wants to convince potential young people to voluntarily join the German army with incentives. Incentives could include free driver’s licenses or easier access to academic subjects for those who complete voluntary military service, according to the report. Discounts on student loan repayments or language courses are also being discussed as incentives.

In the future, according to the report, Pistorius wants to contact all 18-year-olds with a screening questionnaire. This call they have to provide information about their physical condition. However, there is no obligation to serve. Instead, it is hoped that the questionnaire will stimulate interest in working in the German military. The German army has already done advertising in this field in the form of postcards.

According to Spiegel weekly, this “Pistorius” plan is followed with a critical eye within the ministry and there is less hope for its success.

The German army currently has more than 180,000 soldiers in service. This number is expected to increase to 203,000 by 2031. However, given the current developments in the region, increasing this number of personnel is probably a missed target. The number of active military personnel in the army is steadily decreasing.

The German army is severely facing a personnel shortage crisis, and this crisis has intensified especially in the shadow of the Ukraine war.

In this situation, although the German army is only allowed to recruit underage soldiers in this country in exceptional cases, the crisis of personnel shortage has accelerated the process of such recruitments in this country’s army.

At the same time, the Social Democrats, Greens and Liberal Democrats agreed in the federal coalition agreement that training and service with weapons should be for adult soldiers. The German Federal Minister of Education recently asked schools to Create peace with the army. He said: I think it is important that young officers come to schools and report what the Bodensohr (German army) is doing for our security. Germany has once again been in the public eye to defend itself. The German Ministry of Defense recently announced that last year there were about 27,000 vacancies in the German army.

This is the reason why the discussions about compulsory military service in this country have come to the fore again.

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