2021/03/09
News reference materials for the regular press conference of the Ministry of National Defense in the second week of March
I Press Conference Topic: Elaboration on "class and squad for recruitment by the Armed Forces" in 2021.
II Moderator: Major general Shih, Shun-Wen
Spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense (MDN)
III Press Conference Attendees:
Xia, De-yu Major General
Director of Human Resource Development, Office of the Deputy Chief of General Staff for Personnel
IV Ministry of National Defense Reference Material:
1. Introduction to class and squad:
(1) The recruitment of class and squad by the Armed Forces for year 2021 is divided into nine squads of three categories: officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers. In total, the MND has planned to recruit 18,294 personnel. Among them, officer squads include regular classes from military academy and the university reserve officer training corps (ROTC), flight standing officers, second officers, professional officers, bachelor class of national defense, as well as junior high and senior high from the Chung Cheng Armed Forces Preparatory School. For non-commissioned officers and soldier squads, there will be a two-year non-commissioned officer class, a professional non-commissioned officer class, and a voluntary military service squad.
(2) In 2020, the class and squad officers planned to recruit 3,618 members. 4,185 members were recruited in the end, with an achievement rate of 115.67%. As for the recruitment of non-commissioned officers, it was first planned to recruit 2,122 members. 2,009 members were recruited, with an achievement rate of 94.67%. For recruitment of volunteer military soldiers, 13,080 members were initially planned to be recruited, but this number was exceeded and 14,846 were recruited, with an achievement rate of 113.5%. The overall achievement rate of recruitment for officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers totals 111.8%.
2. Presentation briefing with personal examples (personnel resumes found as attached):
(1) Sharing of training service in military academy classes and the Chung Cheng Armed Forces Preparatory School: Wu Yu-Wei, a fourth-year student from the R.O.C. Military Academy.
(2) Sharing of training service in regular military academy classes: Hsu, Chia-Hung Hsu, a fourth-year student from the School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center.
(3) Sharing of training service for flight standing officers: Captain Wang Pao-Jung, Song-shan Command of the Air Force (the officer’s name includes an ancient character, so the name is pronounced "bao". Please refer to the pdf for correct pronunciations of names).
(4) Sharing of training service for bachelor's of national defense: Sun Yu-ting, a first-year student from National Chengchi University.