Greece's Defense Ministry says it will scrap mandatory service in the navy and airforce in 2012 following defense spending cuts.

Defense Minister Evangelos Venizelos said Friday that during the transition these two branches of the armed forces will seek conscripts with specialist skills, including doctors and chemical engineers.

Military service in Greece is compulsory for all men aged between 18 and 45. A nine-month mandatory service will remain for the army.

In recent years, Greece's armed forces have become increasingly reliant on professional recruits.

Friday's measures were announced a day after defense spending cuts worth llion ($738 million) were revealed as part of the 2010 state budget.



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Where have you been hiding?

Question to the Greeks, how much will this add to the defence budget?

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This is also among TSK's long-term plans. "Professionalization" of the troops have already started with the mountain commandos.

Turk Bir Dev

Professional recruits and thousands of ukranian & russian mercenaries are cheaper on long term contracts.

The Greeks

We don't want any Mercs, oh God no.



http://kypros.org/Occupied_Cyprus/lambousa/

Of course you need Mercs - they will be under the guard of patriots.

What was wrong with the Vanrangian Guard.?

Leonidas had them, Alexandros had them.

professional mercenaries have more than their uses.

professional, experience and want the job done to take their money home to their families.

The Greeks

Mercs these days , usually do not work out very well. Do you really think Greece needs Russian and Ukrainian mercs anyway? and if so, why?



http://kypros.org/Occupied_Cyprus/lambousa/

A merc is a merc - every NATO soldier in Afganistan is exactly that.



The Greeks

Doesn't really answer my question now does it.



http://kypros.org/Occupied_Cyprus/lambousa/

A merc is a merc - every NATO soldier in Afganistan is exactly that. <<<<<<<<<< <br>










If that were true, it would just further prove my point anyway. They are getting their arses kicked over there in A-stan.




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No country should have a Conscript in its Air Force, they should leave that to the pro's

Tolga, alot of those conscripts were doing menial jobs anyway, they were not fighter pilots.



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ur reference to merc being a merc....ref Iraqi and Afghan exp.
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Recent western experience shows that they tend to be loyal to paychecks and have a tendency to breach military protocole...

In Turkey we used Ozel Harekat (Special ops. under police force and not the red berrets under the chief of staff of TA)...hell they were effective fighters/killers/butchers, unfortunatelly driven by extremely faschistic ideology...I was not quite sure if I had rather have one of those watching my 6 or a simple infantry conscript!

Some of Turkey's dramatic losses (like the execution of 33 conscripts in 91 near Mardin) and many others were strongly denied and unaccounted for by the pkk leadership!!! Pkk eschalons insisted on special ops' involvement in such massacres to provoke massive national upheaval against the pkk...

merc. hired by the state driven my a bloodsoaked patriotism !?!?!?! or those loyal plainly to pay checks...eventually breaches military protocole and things get out of hand really...

mandatory should be shortened and pro armies should emerge. we are living in the area of professionality & high tech gadgets. but merc and pro are different things. for one i'll take the word of merc as an insult.

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Fantaros stop talking about Greek Army conscription, you have never served your country so please STFU!

Delievering pizzas in Queens is not military service.

I said no peperoni you idiot!

KALLI/VPII


You've never served in any armed forces, so don't throw stones in glass houses. I notice you haven't used your other login as much anymore. What happened, that weightlifting bet with Wolf that you pvssied out on still got you down? ....lol.......fkin wimp






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