Conscripts must be sent to Greenland

Defense Minister Jeppe Bruus (S) states in a parliamentary response that conscripts must be sent to Greenland.

– With the new 11-month conscription, conscripts are trained to be able to participate in the Armed Forces’ task solution. The conscripts will be used in tasks that do not require a longer specialist education.

– In Greenland, the conscripts will be deployed together with employed soldiers and be part of the overall task solution, Jeppe Bruus writes, among other things, in the response.

In March, TV 2 described on the basis of confidential documents that, according to the plan, around 100 conscripts are to be sent to Greenland after the summer.

The parliamentary response does not elaborate on the details of the broadcast. It is not clear, for example, how many conscripts are to be deployed and from when.

In an interview with TV 2, Jeppe Bruus says that the first conscripts will travel to Greenland at the end of July.

He calls the decision a “breakthrough”.

In another parliamentary response, it reads that “the dispatch of conscripts to Greenland takes place in accordance with the fixed rotation of units to solve the assigned task with an increased presence in Greenland”.

– Conscripts will form part of units together with permanent soldiers and complete the tasks for which they have been trained, thereby contributing to the overall task solution of the Armed Forces in an appropriate and competent manner, it reads.

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