“We don’t repeat mistakes. We learn from mistakes,” Andranik Kocharyan, chairman of the National Defense and Security Affairs Committee, told reporters. Referring to the project to be free of mandatory military service for 24 million AMD, Andranik Kocharyan said that it is necessary to delve into the content, to see how others reached the professional army.
“Do you want armies of EU member states, do you want hybrid armies…
There is an idea in it, 24 million is not the basis. All conscripts go through a 4.5 month training process, after the training an alternative option is also given, would you like to join the professional army structures for a period of 5 years?
If so, with a high salary, if the soldier meets the training, they will take the exams and serve. People say no, we don’t want to. We do not mind that there are people who will pay 24 million. It will serve to have a professional army.”
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According to him, the social factor will be preserved. “First, the rich people will serve, and after 4.5 months they will come to training every year. You separate: poor, rich. Now our army has been a continuous army of the poor. Now, yes, because we’ve lost officers in this climate of indifference. The best officers have grown old, not been renewed, or died.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
