Army Recruitment: Most candidates fail the physical test


by The Romania Journal

The Romania Journal— The General Staff of Defense analyzed, in February, March and April, the conduct of the first round of recruitment-selection of professional soldiers this year, a process consisting mainly of the phases of registration and selection of candidates (preparation of files, evaluations physical, psychological and medical), respectively of the distribution in units of the admitted candidates. […]

dailym.ai—and only left when he feared being recruited into the Russian army. As early as January 2015 he saved the lives of his friends in Ukrainian-controlled Debaltseve by tipping them off about an imminent attack and giving them time to shelter before Russian rockets arrived.

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