If the announcements To abolish military service in the Navy and Air Force They created you a sense of déjà vu, don’t worry. You have really experienced it again. This reform had been announced twice in the recent pastin 2009 and 2010, by two different governments.
At the beginning of 2009under the government of Kostas Karamanlis, The Minister of National Defense, Vangelis Meimarakis, has announced plans to abolish the drawers in the two bodies. He had estimated that this would be one of the measures that would create the conditions to reduce the term of 9 months. He did not implement them, as in October 2009 we had early elections and defeat of the New Democracy.
The Papandreou government took the baton. Shortly after the election, tNovember 2009, Evangelos Venizelos announced the gradual reduction of the number of those who served in the Navy and Air Forceso that by 2011 it is completely abolished. According to the plans at the time, the Navy and the Air Force would only be directed to drawers who were qualified for the operation of the two bodies, such as e.g. Doctors, Meteorologists or Graduates of Merchants’ Schools.
For almost a whole year there was no mobility. In September 2010, Deputy Minister Panos Beglitis announced from the House step that the military service would be abolished in the Air Force and the Navy. Underlining that “as specialized disciplines, professional executives are needed and mainly with professional and service continuity.”
And this effort remained on the papers, as Greece sank into the financial crisis and every initiative that did not belong to the Mnemonic obligations was referred to the calendars. In addition, in November 2011, the Papandreou government was a thing of the past. Neither Samarra’s government nor Alexis Tsipras was raised.
Conditions seem to have matured as Greece is now against a new geopolitical reality. So does Nikos Dendia’s political will for radical changes in the army, leaving promises that it will not trigger evil, but that the third attempt will be lucky.