Armed Forces reorganization remains unchanged
ROC Central News Agency
2010/03/21 18:47:40
Taipei, March 21 (CNA) The Ministry of National Defense (MND) denied Sunday that it has flipflopped on the re-organization of the armed forces.
The ministry said in a statement that it has a long-term policy of restructuring the armed forces to adapt them into forces consisting of career military personnel rather than draftees.
To brace for the transformation, the current commands of military police, combined logistics and reserves will be abolished, while the Army, Navy and Air Force commands will be left intact, according to the statement.
"This plan was mapped out thoroughly in an overall defense review published by the ministry in March 2009," the statement said.
"It is a policy that has been followed by the MND consistently for a long time and has not changed with the replacement of defense chiefs. It certainly has not been reversed again and again as has been reported in the press," it said.
According to a Sunday report in the China Times, a local daily, the logistics department has been assigned to the Combined Logistics Command and the commands of three different services alternately many times.
Meanwhile, the recruit training centers have been assigned alternately to the Reserve Command and the Army Command, according to the paper. (By Maubo Chang) ENDITEM/J
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