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More than five hundred young people have registered in Tata as part of the “Man for the iron!” recruitment campaign, and the final number of personnel will be selected from them, the Defense Minister said in Tata (northwestern Hungary), at the enlistment of Klapka György 1st Armoured Brigade’s Self-propelled Artillery Division.
In the framework of the force development, the Defense Forces are looking for young people for a specific unit and a specific task, as modern combat equipment has arrived, said Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky. He also noted that the prospective operators of the PzH 2000, one of the world’s most modern self-propelled howitzers, are being offered a gross salary of HUF 737,000 (EUR 1,900) per month.
PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers in Tata. Photo: MTI/Bodnár Boglárka
“The country can buy the world’s most magnificent equipment with taxpayers’ money.
If there are no Hungarian soldiers to learn how to operate these complex devices, how to fight with them, then we will have done nothing,”
the Minister stressed.
He explained that the recruitment office offered candidates the opportunity to undergo a preliminary medical fitness test, so those who wanted to join the army, and leave their jobs behind, could do so without risk.
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Lieutenant General Ferenc Kajári, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, said that the aim was to reform the recruitment system of the Hungarian Defense Forces. During the three-month campaign, the PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers were demonstrated in several locations and the number of people interested in the artillery increased significantly.
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The Lieutenant General added that some of the prospective artillerymen are those who gained experience in the Honvéd cadet program, while others are from the Territorial Defense Reserve, as well as weapons mechanics and sportsmen.
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