Government to End National Military Service

11th August 2008

The cabinet approved legislation on Tuesday that will end Poland’s system of national military service this year and make the country’s armed forces fully professional by the end of December 2010.

The cabinet approved legislation on Tuesday that will end Poland’s system of national military service this year and make the country’s armed forces fully professional by the end of December 2010.
Currently, all Poles not in full-time study or otherwise medically-excused are required to serve a year in the army after leaving school. Traditionally, the system has been a way of providing Poles leaving school early with additional, job-specific training. But thousands of others have sought to ...