Promotion of a New Generation of NCOs
Friday, 23.10.2020 | Stories from Units
A military ceremony on the occasion of the admission into professional military service as non-commissioned officers and the promotion of students of the 47th class of the Secondary Vocational Military School and the students of the 15th class of the Basic NCO Course into the rank of sergeant was held today in the "People's Hero Stevica Jovanović" barracks in Pančevo.
98 students of the Basic NCO Course and 42 students of the Secondary Vocational Military School "1300 Corporals" were promoted to the first NCO rank.
The ceremony was attended by the Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces, Major General Petar Cvetković, representatives of the University of Defence, commands and units of the Serbian Armed Forces and local government officials.
Congratulating the promoted NCOs on their first ranks, Minister Vulin said that they did not get their ranks, but “attained them, earned them with their hard work, determination, diligence, effort and stubbornness”.
After reading the order on promotion and granting incentive measures, Minister Vulin presented a gift — a wristwatch to the best student of the 47th class of the Secondary Vocational Military School, Sergeant Ljubomir Miljković, while the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, General Cvetković, presented wristwatches to three most successful students of the 15th class of the Basic NCO Course, Sergeants Dragoljub Šikman, Nenad Alić and Marinko Marinković.
