Serve under the contract in the Armed Forces can and not served in conscription.
Goremykin clarified that the priority in the selection of candidates for service under the contract is given to citizens who have already served in the Armed Forces, have the necessary level of education and the required military accounting specialty. According to him, now the main attention is paid to the quality of selected candidates.
He added that now approximately one sixth of the total number of contract servicemen in the RF Armed Forces are women. “Mostly they occupy the posts of medical personnel, communications specialists. There are no women snipers or grenade launchers in the Russian army yet,” said the head of the personnel department of the Russian Defense Ministry.
According to Goremykin, from August to October, the selection points for military service under the contract were selected and sent to training military units more than 4 thousand people.
Earlier in the Russian General Staff reported that the Ministry of Defense plans to annually select about 50 thousand people for contract service. By the end of next year, the number of contract soldiers in the Russian army should grow to 240 thousand people, by the end of 2014 - to 295 thousand. In the 2015 year, the contract will be 350 thousand, by the end of the 2016 year - 400 thousand people, in the 2017 year it is planned to increase the number of servicemen under contract to 425 thousand people, which will be almost half of the total personnel of the Russian Armed Forces.
The Ministry of Defense has already opened 66 selection points for contract military service in various regions of Russia.
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