The process of registration for the induction of women as captains in the Pakistan Army’s corps of electrical and mechanical engineers, ordinance corps and law branch, has commenced, stated an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release Tuesday. After the completion of registration, a written test as well as a personality assessment and intelligence test would be conducted from February 19 to 22, at all army selection and recruitment centres, including those at Karachi and Hyderabad. The test for the candidates of Army Aviation will be held on February 23. After success in the initial tests and graduation from the Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul, women cadets would be inducted as captains through a direct short service commission. Further details are available on the Pakistan Army’s website: www.joinpakarmy.gov.pk. app
Way to go, girls, anyone up for a wonderful career?
lady docs have always been a part of military services as officers , good to know that even graduate engineers could make their way into it , this would open a door of opportunities for lots of brilliant young ladies , wow.
haris, the e&me women they are talking about... will they be trained at eme college like the other GCs before going to PMA as captains? If so I can see alot of much needed happiness coming to our E&ME college lol... there are girls there (civilians and paying cadets), so it would be easy to get them there, the setups/hostels are already there.
Spock I think this intake is for graduate degree holder cadets only, and so they'd only be taking the military training at PMA and be commissioned as Captains from there, and since the engineer cadets will already have engineering degrees they'd not have to study at EME College like the regular undergad TCC, and unfortuntely break the EME College hearts, but there's a bright side yet, the GCs at PMA must be happy! :D
spock, you are an eme graduate? I think eme college has girls otherwise studying alongwith boys in NUST. In case they join military as well, they would still be having separate companies / blocks and lads can only see their lasses in the class.
Any way i believe it is a great idea to put some spark into the army life by having fellow lady officers there. However if they join military, they join it fully. There should be no pampering like less physical exercise on the pretext that they are women, no out door boot camps and less parade. On the top of it, artificial type of segregation. Women should prove their worth that they are not in army on charity.
But alas to my knowledge, this is happening in military academy with the first course of girl cadets being trained there. If this will be the state of affairs, women will fill up all cantonment slots and boys will only serve in siachin and wanna.
MKF, actually the segregation is only at the academies, for accomodation and physical training, all the rest is done together and on equal no-mercy terms; atleast that's what the official stance is, but one keeps hearing of how it is inevitably lenient and less straining for women; but that could be undue criticism from fellow male cadets competing with girls for the first time, or the girls' abilities etc. But officially the women cadets go through the same training overall. They should, for their own good, as any relaxation would mean less quality training leading to less chances of performing/competing better during their service after training. And their actual performance is yet to be seen as more get commisioned and serve, the speculations/reservations about muslim pakistani girls in military service will find answers in a few years depending on how they excel or fail. The women in other arms such as medical, psych, log, jag, atc etc in 3 forces in the past have performed fairly well.
The only women in combat roles thus far are the handful PAF GDPs. All other women cadets and officers thus far, in all 3 forces, have been in supporitng roles. Though with EME, Ordnance and Signals, they can't entirely be called non-combat supporting arm officers, but their roles in these corps are supposed to be such. The Army still has not opened any recruitment of women into the combat arms, nor does there seem to be any intention so far.
Those hand full of GDP pilots have gone to the VIP squadron and so they are out of combat. Our menfolk is yet not ready to release this to them.
In Academy, once they have a PT period no one except their staff is allowed in that area. same for drill. Off coure classes of a group is always separate, but their dinnig facilities are different. Officers of all arms get two years training but they will get 6 months. They will be posted straight to static establishments and not to field units where a normal passing out graduate goes. They will not be sent to hard areas and will fill up the already few posts available in the cantonments.
I think put them in the same rigmarole, let them do the excercises together and believe you me that girls are also complaining of segregation. They have joined army as they are confident and adventorous. They want to do every activity under the sun. However our mentality is still of keeping them segregated as we are worried that if we allow contact, something wrong will happen.
I would love to hear two unit officers marrying. It would be a wonderful landmark for the army.