So much for the alleged exodus of soldiers. The Polish army is getting stronger! We have more and more soldiers with state-of-the-art equipment, Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the Ministry of National Defense Mariusz Błaszczak wrote on social media.
On Sunday, Błaszczak posted a graph on Twitter showing troop numbers in 2015 and 2022. As the graph indicates, the force numbered 96,000 in 2015. soldiers, and in 2022 – 164 thousand. soldiers.
The graph also shows data on the number of professional military vocations and discharges in 2022. According to information from the Ministry of National Defense, there were 13,742 of the former and 8,988 of the latter.The data for January of this year were also taken into account : As we read, as of the beginning of the year there were 3,969 occupational and voluntary enlisted soldiers, and 4,392 discharged from service.
So much for the alleged exodus of soldiers. The Polish army is getting stronger! We have more and more soldiers who have the most modern equipment. We recreate units and create new ones. This year alone, we have prepared 25,000 voluntary military service. chairs
– the head of the Ministry of National Defense responded to this data on Twitter.
Onets lyrics about “an avalanche of leaving the army”
In recent weeks, some media reported that the number of military personnel leaving the service has increased markedly. Last Friday, the Onet.pl portal wrote about “an avalanche of leaving the army”.
According to unofficial information from Onet, nearly 9,000 people will leave the army this year. experienced soldiers. This scale would have been even greater had the Department of Defense not made unprecedented changes to raises and allowances
reports the portal.
Last year, according to these estimates, Defense assumed that about 6,000 people would leave the army by the end of January 2023. soldiers. However, already in the autumn it became clear that this scale could become twice as large. That would mean as much as 10 percent. loss of personnel in the armed forces. (…) According to Onet, 12,000 people joined the army last year. new army. So it seems that since there are more vocations than departures, the problem is not that big. “Nothing is wrong anymore”, the commanders convince us. The most experienced people leave the army. This includes special forces soldiers, sailors, pilots, logistics employees, tankers or artillerymen. It will take many years to train new ones
– writes Onet.
The portal also writes that “The Ministry of Defense estimates that the Polish Armed Forces currently number more than 160,000 soldiers”.
The problem is that these calculations include both professional soldiers from operational units and volunteer soldiers from the Territorial Defense Forces, who only spend a few days a month on the training ground. In addition, the Ministry of National Defense includes students of military schools and universities in the number of army personnel
Onet notes.
As we read, the Department of National Defense’s move against the wave of service abandonment will include the recently announced introduction of additional long-service benefits for military personnel. The benefit provided by law after 15 years of service starts at 5% of the salary. salaries and will grow at 1% each year. to 15 percent after 25 years. It will remain at 15% in the coming years. After reaching 32 years of service, this is also included in the pension calculation basis. The bill was approved by parliamentary committees last week.
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