Books to bullets: Poland to enlist 10,000 students into volunteer ‘Academic Legion’

‘Poland’s Ministry of Defense has said it will start a new program to give university students military training as part of a volunteer-based “Academic Legion,” which upon completion will see the students enlisted into the country’s reserve forces.
The project, which begins in November, is a joint venture between the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
“We have provided 10,000 places for the training of privates and non-commissioned officers. From November on the universities will start theoretical classes, while during the holidays students will undergo training sessions,” Deputy Minister of Defense Michal Dworczyk announced at a press conference on Monday.
“In my opinion, the Academic Legion corresponds to an important demand of the Polish state, to supplement the ranks of the reserves, which in the domestic and international contexts is very important from the point of view of national defense,” added the deputy minister of Science and Higher Education of Poland, Aleksander Bobko.’
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