Training of additional Active Reserves soldiers gets underway in Sereď
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- Date: 11.06.2018
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The Engineer Battalion Sereď today launched the training of additional Active Reserves soldiers. 40 active reservists, of whom 6 (including 1 woman) are graduates of Voluntary Military Training (VMT), 10 are ex-service personnel, and 24 are graduates of compulsory military service (national service), will practise their basic skills and capabilities mainly at the Training Centre Lešť over the next 2 weeks.
Under the training scheme, active reservists will exercise their basic engineering skills, including mobility and countermobility operations, i.e. building obstacles and laying minefields to slow or divert the enemy in order to block his further advance. They will also develop their competence in fortification works, while building shelters and trenches to ensure their own protection. The training includes negotiating water obstacles with the use of standard engineering assets. The training of active reservists will run until 22 June 2018.
Active reservists are entitled to 600 euros per year, provided that they pass through 75% of the regular training programme, and to a commensurate amount of rank-based military pay for the training period. Through the 2018 Conscription Amendment Act, the MOD is planning to make participation in the Active Reserves training programme even more attractive. Salaries, travel costs, premiums for social and public health insurance for employees will be reimbursed to employers, and so is true of the self-employed.
Soldiers in the reserves holding the rank one below or two higher than their own rank required for a specific position can now enter the Active Reserves. This allows more candidates to meet the set requirements and thus qualify for transfer to the Active Reserves.
In recent weeks, active reservists trained at the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Battalion Rožňava. A total of 14 active reservists passed through the CBRN training.
Under the training scheme, active reservists will exercise their basic engineering skills, including mobility and countermobility operations, i.e. building obstacles and laying minefields to slow or divert the enemy in order to block his further advance. They will also develop their competence in fortification works, while building shelters and trenches to ensure their own protection. The training includes negotiating water obstacles with the use of standard engineering assets. The training of active reservists will run until 22 June 2018.
Active reservists are entitled to 600 euros per year, provided that they pass through 75% of the regular training programme, and to a commensurate amount of rank-based military pay for the training period. Through the 2018 Conscription Amendment Act, the MOD is planning to make participation in the Active Reserves training programme even more attractive. Salaries, travel costs, premiums for social and public health insurance for employees will be reimbursed to employers, and so is true of the self-employed.
Soldiers in the reserves holding the rank one below or two higher than their own rank required for a specific position can now enter the Active Reserves. This allows more candidates to meet the set requirements and thus qualify for transfer to the Active Reserves.
In recent weeks, active reservists trained at the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Battalion Rožňava. A total of 14 active reservists passed through the CBRN training.
