As of 1 September, the basic sub-office course in the fresh formula. “It will be the same for everyone, regardless of whether a candidate for corporal is simply a private professional or a volunteer from civilian society,” says Mar. Marek Cabaj of the General Staff of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The same will be the time of training and the programme, which will include fresh issues, specified as drones.
Organized in the Army sub-commissioned base courses They are addressed to both private professionals and civilians and reserve soldiers. The training, which ends with the exam, allows you to prepare a candidate for service in the sub-commissioned corps. Currently, the duration of the base course of the commandant is different, depending on the form of military service. – For example, for candidates for enlisted officers from the reserve or within the framework voluntary essential military service It lasts 8 weeks and is preceded by 12-day e-learning training. Private professionals aspiring to the Petty Corps in turn are trained according to the 6-week program, without e-learning – explains St. chor. mar. Marek Cabaj, Head of the Department of Vocational Training of the Petty Officers at the P-7 SGWP Training Board.
However, this will shortly change, as the General Staff is working on a fresh course formula. The goal, as the SGWP informs, is to adapt the training to changes in the armed forces, requirements related to the modern, multi-domain battlefield or challenges facing the enlisted officer.
Same for everyone.
Civilian candidates will gotta undergo basic training, specialist training and, depending on their needs, language training, as they presently do. After this stage, the volunteer will be able to be assigned to the preliminary examinations for the course if they are successfully started with training.
The course is to be the same for all candidates for the enlisted officers, regardless of the form of service. According to the same programme, therefore, the training will be given to, for example, professional ranks, civilians who carry out voluntary primary military service and candidates for territorial military service sub-commissioners, as well as students who train as part of the sub-commissioned module "Academic Legion” (since 2027).
According to the assumptions, the course will cover 40 training days (8 weeks) and 12 e-learning days prior to study. As stressed by the Management Board of P7 Training – General Staff, changes in the programme will not only be a “cosmetic” supplement to the content. fresh topics will emerge, e.g. in combating and utilizing unmanned aircraft (BSP), which will be included, among others, in exercise and training scenarios.
– A large deal of emphasis will besides be placed on the issues of field medicine, tactics and planning and command, including the usage of real tactical imaging based on modern IT systems - emphasizes St. chor. mar. Marek Cabaj. The fresh programme will be mostly based on practice and classes will besides take place in the form of integrated combat training and survival. Instructors will besides focus on intellectual predispositions of future enlisted officers, including motivation, cooperation skills, stress management.
Such a strategy of training and education is primarily intended to guarantee that the graduates of the sub-commissioned schools – whether they were professional soldiers or not – have the same competences before the start of education. – The proposed changes in the training programme are intended to be directed towards the creation of a sub-commander, an instructor, who knows the principles of leadership, planning and command. specified commander should be able to fight the usage of unmanned systems and be aware of the importance of Field medicine essential to last and save the life of a soldier – says szt. mar. Cabaj
Verification of candidates
The amendments will besides include an first examination. In addition to the fitness test, there will besides be a applicable examination (recommended in 2022 and now restored again), assessing skills: fire activities, field studies, tactics, field medicine, rules and drills within the task loop. In the case of soldiers after voluntary essential military service, the evaluation of this phase will be based on the current certificate from the unit completed under the DZSW training and acquired skills.
During the examinations the theoretical cognition test (e.g. military issues, regulations, military ceremony) and the interview will inactive be mandatory. “We anticipate first of all from the preliminary examinations a reliable verification of the cognition and predisposition of the candidate to take up education at the sub-office school,” says the head of the Department of Vocational Training of the Sub-Chief of the General Staff.
The basic sub-office course in the fresh expression is to be launched in September 2026. It will be conducted as yet in the sub-office schools, as well as as as a form of a off-site course in selected military units under the patronage of a designated sub-office school.