Chilean Army receives over 4,000 young people to perform the 2022-2023 military service

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On April 18, units of the Chilean Army began quartering the 3,158 men and 917 women who make up the contingent of the Military Service Promotion 2022-2023.

The young men and women will acquire knowledge, skills, and basic training as soldiers to participate in the National Defense, supporting the country in cases of internal emergencies or catastrophes.

For the second time in its centennial history, the Military Service will last 18 months to develop a year of military instruction and six months to level studies and job training of the young people.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The commander of Land Operations (COT) and responsible for the selection and quartering of the conscript soldiers, Major General Christian Bolivar, expressed at Regiment No. 6 Chacabuco in the city of Concepción the best of success to the men and women who are beginning this new experience.

“We hope that these young men and women will be able to develop a period that will provide them with new tools, competencies, and skills to be used initially in the Army and later in their civilian life. In their respective fields and personal projects, we are sure that each of them will find in the Army an institution that offers them growth, development, and improvement to face their future in a better way,” he said.

Young people who perform their Military Service will be able to access job training through courses offered by the National Training and Employment Service (Sence) and continue their military career as Professional Troops Soldier or apply to the different Armed Forces’ parent schools.

INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING

The new soldiers will develop a Technical Specialization Period whose first stage is the Initial Individual Combatant Training Phase, in which they will receive basic combat instruction, first aid, terrain recognition and use, terrestrial orientation, mimicry, and weapons firing.

The soldiers will later develop the Specialized Military Occupation Combatant Training, in which they continue their training and deepen their knowledge in specific subjects and learn a specialty as part of a unit or weapon system.

Conscripts may serve as riflemen, mortar piece servicemen, artillery piece servicemen, machine gun servicemen, artillery piece ammunition man, driver’s assistants, and radio operators, among other occupations.