A large bundle of changes aimed astatine the caller epoch successful the Armed Forces was presented by the Minister of National Defence, Nikos Dendias, astatine today’s gathering of the Council of Ministers, unfolding the full representation of the modulation to the New Structure.
The representation of the modulation to the caller epoch includes:
The representation of the modulation to the caller epoch volition see the caller operation of the caller government, the caller operation of the caller era, the caller operation of the caller authorities and the caller epoch of the caller era.
New grading system
New wage scale
New vocation system
New world model for subject studies
New service
New reserve
Voluntary conscription of women with 12 months of work for women aged 20-26
As for the objectives of the roadmap, it aims to:
Rationalization
Modernisation of the organization model with a caller valuation system
Upgrading of world education
The instauration of a caller exemplary of tenure
The instauration of a caller exemplary of progressive reserve
As for the legislation, it “will beryllium enactment to consultation and thing is written connected marble,” Dendias noted, adding that we are acceptable for an unfastened dialogue. But helium listed cases of irrationality, saying of respective categories of cadres that determination is simply a contradiction against the relation and age.
New grading standard and wage scale
For example, colonels and their peers are paid respective times much than sergeants, citing a 17-18 twelvemonth accommodation signifier starring to a due Armed Forces pyramid.
It cannot beryllium longer than that, the Minister stressed, explaining that successful the caller organizational operation determination volition beryllium a ranking strategy with 9 chiseled ranks. Specifically, the grading standard is abstracted from the wage scale, what has been successful unit until present is nary longer successful force. The wage does not travel the grade.
Moreover, arsenic for the valuation of the officers of the Armed Forces, 97.3% of the officers were rated astatine 100% and this does not basal up to immoderate disapproval and is wholly devoid of seriousness, Dendias pointed out. In fact, the irrationality successful numbers has consequences for the units, it has consequences for the commands, helium observed, adding that “we are moving to a caller vocation strategy with a ceiling of positions for elder officers.”
According to the Minister of National Defence, “there volition beryllium a caller standing scale, to enactment it simply, we volition instrumentality to seriousness” erstwhile we presently person 85 wage scales, helium noted. “In different words, we are motivating the non-responsibility successful the military,” commented Dendias, adding that “we are creating a caller peculiar wage scale” astatine a clip erstwhile 20 peculiar scales are being established
At the aforesaid time, the Minister of National Defence announced:
-Increase of the presumption of work allowance, i.e. positive 156% to the Colonel, up to 5% to the Chief of the General Staff
-Provision is adjacent made for a work allowance for NCO subdivision leadership
-Establishment of a bid bonus, precisely to promote and reward responsibility.
As for the caller salaries, they provide:
-Huge 52% summation for a commandant oregon commandant of a frigate
-A 67% summation for a Petty Officer serving connected a PN ship
-A 67% summation for a Petty Officer serving connected a PN ship
-As good arsenic 51% summation for frigate crew.
“All officers volition get important raises,” Dendias said, describing that this is the archetypal signifier and that “these raises are not coming from wealth fixed to america by the GAO,” but from the savings of the archetypal phase, the Camp merger. “This is simply a antithetic illustration for the Greek nationalist sector,” the Defense Minister stressed.
More increases successful 2026
In addition, successful the 3rd phase, the savings volition pb to a caller wage standard and I anticipation that successful a year’s clip determination volition beryllium the anticipation of a caller summation successful the wage of the executives, Dendias stressed.
For non-commissioned officers, helium argued that immoderate changes volition pb them to higher salaries and pensions than they would person had if the betterment had not taken place, portion helium announced that successful a fewer days the caller 10-year lodging programme of the Ministry of National Defense volition beryllium presented, the largest lodging programme of the modern Greek state, with fulfillment of each the needs of the officers and financed by our arms program. “Our extremity is 1 is each serviceman erstwhile transferred volition person a cardinal to a home,” the curate said.
As for the attraction of the members of the Armed Forces, Dendias besides mentioned:
-The programme of day-care centres
He besides mentioned the following.
-Development successful the resorts of the Armed Forces
-In the subject work stations and we volition marque definite they person discount offers, namely:
-Better salaries, amended career, location enactment for family, abrogation and amended quality to provender the market.
Military Training Command
As for the subject schools, the constitution of the Military Education Administration is envisaged, wherever each the schools are incorporated and a probe money relationship is adjacent created, arsenic successful universities, to promote research. In the aforesaid context, we are going to grade with a defined technological taxable and besides making the non-commissioned officers’ schools higher with professors – module members with standardization and certification of education, helium said.
As for the improvement of non-commissioned officers, we are giving them 2 chiseled pathways for those who would similar to go officers:
-With a qualifying introspection successful the 2nd year
-After 14 years, the anticipation of transportation is fixed if they person different grade -There volition beryllium a non-commissioned serviceman adjacent to each Greek elder officer, arsenic good arsenic a non-commissioned serviceman participating successful the judgments each time, arsenic a rapporteur for the judgments of non-commissioned officers.
We person a akin involvement successful the NCOs, we are creating a vocation that volition beryllium distinctive. We are stopping this porridge tactic, Dendias pointed out.
Break connected deferments
Regarding subject service, “from work – chore, we indispensable spell to work – reserve,” noted the Minister of National Defence, noting that the authorities and I judge successful the civilian army, Dendias said, saying that we are not projecting the exemplary of a mercenary army.
A fabrica has been acceptable up, wherever tens of thousands person claimed intelligence problems, Dendias explained and went connected to accidental that this is not the mode it is done.
He said, “It is not true.
“There is an expanding inclination successful truancy” arsenic helium stressed and for this crushed helium announced that:
There is simply a beardown denotation that determination is simply a caller inclination successful the usage of the dope.
-We are tightening up the model for granting deferments, conscionable arsenic we are tightening up the model for overseas residents and buying retired service.
– The aforesaid applies to the instauration of the caller rules connected the usage of overseas nationals and the acquisition of residence permits, and the usage of overseas nationals’ residency and the acquisition of residency permits.
-We are changing the fiscal threshold to 1 500 euros per period and we volition see
-Transition clip for the non-existent a two-year period.
-We volition abolish suspensions for candidates for deputies and MEPs
Furthermore, it is given:
-Incentive of 9 months of work for each those who articulation the service aft precocious schoolhouse and lone successful the Army successful the aboriginal each those who enlist.
-Nine-month work for those serving successful Evros, the eastbound Aegean islands and ELDYK.
-We are wholly changing the wide catering regulation, i.e. nutrient successful each units volition beryllium eaten.
New grooming framework
According to the Defence Minister, “we look a tenfold threat” whenever a caller grooming model is launched:
-Basic grooming 10 weeks
-Special 4 weeks
-And grooming successful readiness units 12 weeks
-Then, the worker present trained volition beryllium assigned to the reserve.
“Each of our soldiers volition beryllium trained not lone successful weapons but besides successful modern technologies, specified arsenic drones,” Dendias said, noting that “we request to make a caller service and we volition make this army.”
Active Reserve
-We are creating a corps of 150,000 progressive reservists connected a voluntary ground successful the archetypal phase. If it’s not filled voluntarily we’ll see.
-Expanding the reserve from 58 to 65 years of age.
-Consolidation of reserve with the National Guard.
Creation of 2 squadrons of reserve commandos successful Redina and Aspropyrgos, with commandos adjacent if they presently person a achromatic diploma.
-Recruiting 50,000 radical a twelvemonth implicit 3 years with grooming successful peculiar units
-Agreement with the societal partners, though the wealth collected from the buyout of the work volition beryllium utilized to money the reserve.
-Target an progressive reserve of 20 women for 2026, ages 20-26, with recruitment incentives. We privation to beryllium acceptable for the clip erstwhile determination volition beryllium mandatory conscription of women successful Greece.
We are perfectly acceptable to sermon ideas, thoughts, changes and the ministry does not see that it is made up of infallibles.”
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