Defense 12,500 recruits enlist for winter military service

SDA

13.1.2025 - 11:36

The Winter RS started on Monday. (archive picture)
The Winter RS started on Monday. (archive picture)
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12,500 recruits and 2,600 cadres enlisted on Monday for the first recruit school in 2025. The proportion of women is 2.6 percent.

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According to the Department of Defense, 50 Swiss nationals from abroad also travelled to Switzerland for the 18-week basic training course. Of the total of around 15,000 members of the armed forces, 1,500 are serving under the "through service" model.

In order to do justice to military developments and to show soldiers the army as an overall system, more joint exercises are to be carried out by different branches of the armed forces, it added.