The Chilean Army will carry out from October 3 to 14 a second call for all those young men of Chilean nationality who did not present themselves to the selection processes for the Military Service 2022 contingent in March of this year.
According to the institution, in the case of men who did not comply with this process and are currently violators of the Conscription Law, they will be able to update their military situation with this measure.
The call includes men and women who applied for the Military Service 2022 but were not selected. These citizens, who applied to the Chilean Army and Navy, were available, excluded, or postponed.
Chilean men born between 1998 and 2001 who applied for the alternative modes of service and conscription at the end of a career and who have not renewed or have done so only once will also be able to participate.
The Chilean Army has set up presentation sites in military units all over the country and will enable a platform that will allow young people to know if they can be part of this new call.
A DEMANDING PREPARATION
As InfoDefensa reported, in April, the institution carried out the quartering of the 3,158 men and 917 women who make up the contingent of the Military Service Promotion 2022-2023.
The young men and women who fulfill this civic duty acquire knowledge, skills, and basic training as soldiers, actively participating in the National Defense and supporting the country in internal emergencies or catastrophes.
The Military Service 2022-2023 will last 18 months for the second time in its centenary history to develop a year of military instruction, while the remaining six months will be destined for the leveling of studies and job training of young people.
The conscript soldiers develop a Technical Specialization Period (PET), whose first stage is the Initial Individual Combatant Training Phase (FFICI), in which they will receive basic combat instruction, first aid, terrain recognition and use, terrestrial orientation, mimicry, and weapons firing.
Subsequently, they execute the Specialized Military Occupation Combatant Training Phase (FFCOME), in which they continue training, deepen their knowledge in specific subjects, and learn a specialty as part of a unit or weapon system.
They will serve as riflemen, mortar, artillery, machine gun crew members, artillery crew members, assistant drivers, and radio operators, among other OMEs.
With information from InfoDefensa