DRAFT OF NEW MILITARY TRAINING SYSTEM PRESENTED

ZAGREB, Feb 4 (Hina) - The draft of a new training system for commissioned and non-commissioned Croatian Armed Forces officers and civil servants working at the Defence Ministry will enable them to receive an education at civilian institutions and complement it with additional military training. The draft was presented in the Feb. 1 issue of the Defence Ministry's gazette Obrana. The most well-known example of military-civilian training has been at the Zagreb Faculty of Transport Studies, which trains military pilots. Military personnel has attended classes elsewhere as well, for example the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, the Maritime Studies Faculty, and the Electrical Engineering and Computing Faculty. The new education system envisages an integrated military-civilian post-graduate training which would combine three variants of civilian and military studies. According to the first, university graduates would be admitted into military service and subsequently have to undertake an accelerated fast basic officers' training. The second variant, whose implementation should begin this year, would include Armed Forces scholarship holders from the third and fourth year of various studies who would attend additional military classes. Plans envisage military camp training as well. The third variant is closest to the classic military academy concept. Scholarship holders attending the academy since their first year would live at the academy and, upon completion of studies, represent the essence and elite of the officers' corps. (hina) ha sb