China News Service, October 12. According to Taiwan's United News Network, when answering questions at the "Legislative Yuan" yesterday, the head of Taiwan's defense department, Feng Shikuan, admitted that Taiwan's military recruitment did encounter difficulties, but with the efforts of the defense department, by 2020 The compilation-to-present ratio can be increased to 90%. DPP "legislator" Luo Chi-cheng questioned this and said that Taiwan's defense department cannot report good news but not bad news.
Data map: Taiwan military special service team exercises. Image source: Taiwan China Times Electronic News.
Feng Shikuan made a business report yesterday, and Democratic Progressive Party legislator Luo Zhizheng questioned it. Taiwan’s defense department continued to boast in the report that manpower recruitment met or even exceeded the standard, but the current reality of the army is that "officers cannot be recruited, non-commissioned officers are in short supply, and compulsory "Can't recruit people through solicitation", Taiwan's defense department cannot report good news but not bad news.
Luo Zhizheng listed a number of Taiwan military enrollment data and pointed out that this year's enrollment target for each military academy was 4,692 students, but only 3,883 students were actually received. The compliance rate was only 66%, which was lower than the compliance rate in the previous two years. As for the regular classes of military academies, the total compliance rate is 65%. Among them, the Army Academy, which has the most serious shortage of personnel, only recruits 47%, and the National Defense University only recruits 56%. As for the second specialized class of the sergeant school, the total compliance rate is 66%, among which the Army College is the lowest, only 58%.
Luo Zhizheng also said that 1,476 compulsory non-commissioned officers are expected to be recruited this year, divided into two levels, but the number of registrations for the first level is only single digits, and the number of registrations for reserve officers is only two digits. Chen Zhengqi, an official from Taiwan’s defense department, confirmed, Only eight first-level non-commissioned officers reported for duty, and only 97 preliminary officers.
Previously, in order to solve the "officer shortage" at the grassroots level, the Taiwanese defense department offered non-commissioned officers who have served for more than three years to apply for transfer to second lieutenant officers. Luo Zhizheng said that at that time, it was announced that the target was more than 1,000 people in the first year, but now the defense department has The target was changed to 413 people, and 406 people were recruited, with a compliance rate of 98%. This shows that Taiwan’s defense department secretly lowered the “denominator” in order to beautify the compliance rate.
Kuomintang "legislator" Jiang Qichen questioned that military training personnel who had served for four months did not have sufficient combat skills after the five-week enlistment training and had to participate in base training or even the Hanguang exercise. "If such soldiers also People who can get off the base, people from the past Is it a lie to serve in the army for two years?"
Taiwan's defense department official Fu Zhengcheng replied that the military training men will go to the base with the troops, but they will not take part in the test, they will only learn from experience; these people are engaged in simple simple movements. , will not cause danger.
