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According to her, another 210 high school students will be able to perform mandatory initial military service by participating in the training of Junior Officer Commanders.
According to the ministry, the order was signed by the outgoing Minister of National Defense, Raimundas Karoblis, at the end of November.
“Permanent compulsory military service remains one of the most successful projects to strengthen the army: fresh blood is poured into the army, citizenship is cultivated and the connection between society and the army is strengthened,” said the minister.
“Conscripts represent up to 73 percent. Newcomers to professional military service and this is the best proof of the attractiveness of the service, he said.
COVID-19 does not affect the self-determination of young people
Arūnas Balčiūnas, Director of the Military Service and Recruitment Service of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, says that the difficult situation due to the coronavirus does not significantly affect young people to volunteer.
“Although the epidemiological situation in the country is extremely complicated this year, COVID-19 does not have a significant impact on the decision of young people to voluntarily choose permanent compulsory military service and thus fulfill their constitutional duty,” said A. Balčiūnas.
“For the sixth consecutive year, the number of recruits who wish to perform their service as a priority has reached almost 4.3 thousand this year, and the number of those who wish to perform their service on a voluntary basis has remained stable, around 3 We hope that in the coming years the number of conscripts who wish to carry out their service voluntarily will not decrease, ”said the director of the service.
According to him, the engineer battalions of Juozas Vitkus, the dragons of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Butigeidis, received the most interest from the recruits this year.
These battalions were chosen by young people from all regions of Lithuania.
According to the Ministry of National Defense, there is a tendency that young people are already choosing more diverse places of service and not necessarily in their districts.
The first young men summoned next year should begin their service at the end of March in the artillery of General Romualdas Giedraitis of the Mechanized Infantry Brigade “Iron Wolf” of the Armed Forces of Lithuania and in the battalions of personnel of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas.
The lists of recruits for the next year will be published on the Internet at sauktiniai.karys.lt no later than one month from the beginning of the call.
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