MOSCOW. Oct 31 (Interfax-AVN) - Over 10,000 contract servicemen in the Western Military District (ZVO) will be sent to higher-education institutions and training centers to enhance their professional skills.
"On November 1, more than 10,000 contract soldiers from the District will sit down at desks to improve their professional qualification and to complete additional training in their current military post," ZVO spokesman Col. Andrei Bobrun told Interfax-AVN on Friday.
Contract soldiers will be trained at more than 20 military institutes and training centers across the Western Military District, he said.
Junior specialists from the Navy, Air Force, Air Defense, missile troops and artillery, communications and engineering troops, and electronic warfare troops will spend a month at ZVO military higher-educations institutions and specialized training centers, studying models of weapons and military hardware and increasing their theoretical knowledge.
At the end of the study period contract servicemen will have to sit exams in special training and other military disciplines. Those who failed to acquire skills and knowledge during the training course and demonstrated unsatisfactory performance at the final exams will have their future in the military service decided by a certifying commission, the ZVO spokesman said.
In September-October, contract soldiers underwent a routine certification procedure, he said. Based on its results, it has been decided to send junior specialists, who require further training, to military institutes and training centers of the Russian Armed Forces.