The Serbian Military Union announced that the illegal amendments to the Rulebook on the salaries of professional members of the Serbian Armed Forces (SAF), which favor some members of the SAF, while discriminating against others, caused an unprecedented drop in morale among 90 percent of professional SAF members of all ranks and categories.
"None of the professional members of the Armed Forces disputes that colleagues in the special units should have higher salaries through various allowances and that young people should be stimulated with money, but no one dreamed that a rift would be created among the professional members in such a reckless and unfair way, even in their worst nightmares." must," said the union.
As an example, it was stated that the commander of a brigade of the Army, who is a brigadier general by formation, will have the same salary as a corporal in a special unit, while an officer in the command of a special brigade will have almost three times the salary for the same job compared to his colleague in to another unit of the Armed Forces.
A second lieutenant who has just started working in the army, in special units will have a salary of more than 240.000 dinars, while a second lieutenant in other army units will receive a salary at the limit of the average salary for almost the same job.
The Ministry of Defense recently announced a competition for the recruitment of civilian candidates for members of the "Cobra", "to fill vacant formation positions", where a special requirement is now high school education. Previously, the requirement was primary school.
As "Vreme" wrote in the text "Tightened conditions for admission to "Cobra": Why did the competition for special units fail?", there was a kind of sobering up in the Ministry of Defense that in the modern technological age, someone who could not go beyond elementary school cannot be a special officer.
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When propaganda backs down in the face of facts - then it is bad for its creators, this time embodied in Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Defense Minister Miloš Vučević. After their "thunderstorm announcement" that by the end of the year the Army would have 5000 special forces, with a starting salary of 2000 euros, failed, that soap bubble began to disintegrate "at room temperature."
Recently, members of the Military Union of Serbia and professional soldiers sent an open letter to the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, on the occasion of his address.
The President of Serbia previously gave a message to the professional Serbian soldiers that they should take brooms in their hands and clean the barracks and denounced Brigadier General Miroslav Talian at the same expense, in the way that Minister Momirović or the Director of "Roads of Serbia" Drobnjak would not have pointed out its dominance.
In the letter, it was emphasized that the president of Serbia has a wrong perception of the army and that the incompetence, ignorance, arrogance and insolence of the superiors, who were immersed in crime and abuses solely for the sake of personal interests, completely made sense and destroyed the army as a whole.
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