The police struggle with the fact that more and more applicants are physically unable to complete the training. But what about the military? The “Krone” asked.
“Push-ups alone are not a knockout criterion,” said Colonel Alois Arnreiter, 59, head of the supplementary division of the Upper Austrian Military Command. As reported, only five of the 17 participants had the required 21 push-ups in one of the latest police entrance exams, whose school is within throwing distance of the street in Linz.
152 were partially fit
400 criteria are checked for conscription, from October 3 in Upper Austria also with a new computer-aided test. And up until March last year, an average of about 25 percent of conscripts across the country were unfit, in Upper Austria 26.2 percent — since then, there’s the new partial fitness. “This has also led to an improvement in the number of people allowed into the military and community service,” Arnreiter said. In the previous year, 152 of the 6,750 Upper Austrians “delivered” in Linz were classified as partially fit.
Special application areas
“In addition, a recruit who is deployed in cyber defense does not necessarily have to be muscular,” says Arnreiter. Partially fit workers can also be used in the kitchen or office.
Mental illness
Yet about a quarter of all conscripts are still considered unfit. According to one review, 56 percent of them have mental disorders or exhibit behavioral problems. “In my experience it is usually a combination of psychological and physical factors. One reason alone rarely leads to incapacity,” said Colonel Arnreiter.
Source: Krone
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