ALL CONSCRIPTS TO SPEND WHOLE SERVICE PERIOD IN MILITARY|83年次後役男 今年起都要下部隊

Under the Ministry of Defense's plan to abolish conscription, young men in Taiwan born in and after 1993 today only have to serve for a total of 16 weeks. Previously, those 16 weeks were divided into 8 weeks of boot camp and 8 weeks of actual service, but the Defense Ministry announced yesterday that in the future, conscripts will receive 5 weeks of boot camp and do 11 weeks of actual service instead. The Ministry hopes that spending longer time on actual service will translate into more actual experience. However, retired generals worry that this is still not enough to build a strong and experienced army. The Ministry of National Defense announced that after 2018, the military conscript program will no longer exist. Many wonder where it will then get military personnel from. The MND announced changes to the current conscript training program. From this year, males born after 1994 will still have to undergo four months of military training. However, the basic eight-week training will be shortened to five weeks and after this, they will go into troops for further military training for 11 weeks. The aim is to familiarize conscripts with regular military operations. ==CHEN WEN-HSING Maj-Gen., Training Director, Office of the Deputy Chief. General Staff== We need about 81,000 new personnel, but we can only train around 74,000 personnel which is not enough, the training capacity cannot meet the demand in numbers. This means that males born after 1994, conscripted this year will all have to serve in military units. After the five-week training, they will draw lots to serve in the various branches of the military. Some retired high-level military personnel doubt that conscripts with four months of training would be effective in a front line. They would be difficult to command and maintaining their combat capability after leaving would be hard. ==YU BEI-CHEN retired Major General== We already lack officers and so we would have to take out officers from other duties to train these recruits for four months. The cost of the training in terms of manpower and the ability for those recruits to maintain any combat capability is a big drawback. ==SHUAI HUA-MIN retired Lieutenant General== This is just a temporary fix. The solution is a professional military, with four years professional service. This is the only policy to produce professionals. Otherwise, it's just a temporary measure to stop up the gap. Some retired military personnel think that the MND should have acted earlier to lengthen the time that recruits spend in the actual military units to address the problem of lack of personnel. This is still a temporary solution to the lack of basic forces. How to maintain an adequate number of military depends on an attractive recruitment policy. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 國防部宣布107年義務役確定走入歷史，但外界質疑募兵成效不佳，兵源從何而來?在此時機點，國防部上午宣布，83年次以後的役男，今年起，役期改為服4個月的軍事訓練役規劃，訓練期間不變，但是基本的8週入伍訓練，為了要解決役男滯徵的問題，縮減為5週，而後續的專長訓練，則是由原本的8週，延長為11週，加強役男的部隊實務經驗。 ==國防部訓次室軍事訓練處處長 陳文星少將== 需要入營服役新兵 大約為8萬1千人 而國軍新兵入伍的訓練 年訓量約7萬4千人 訓量無法滿足年度 全數役男徵集的一個需求 這等於是，83年次後的役男，今年起都要下部隊，而入伍結訓後的役男，必須依抽籤分發本島或外島第一線的部隊施訓，對這樣的規劃，有退伍將領批評這樣作法，認為只有四個月役期的役男，在第一線部隊問題多，不但將造成幹部管理上困難，在戰力維持上更是非常大的弊端。 ==退役少將 于北辰== 在幹部不足的情況之下 還要抽成幹部出來 專門訓練這種4個月的軍事訓練役 其實在訓練成本上 跟戰力的維持上 都是非常大的弊端 ==退役中將 帥化民== 治標不治本 治本的是你要全部募兵啊 全部募來當四年的兵 那個才能是精兵政策 你這個只是填補現在的 殘缺不全的空隙 但也有退將認為，國防部早就應該要延長役男部隊訓練時間，來彌補基本兵力缺乏的問題，只是這樣仍然治標不治本，如何要讓國軍兵源充足，還是要從提升募兵政策的吸引力做起。 記者 台北綜合報導