2023-04-16 13:01:00
“We decided, a collaborator and I, to get involved,” he explained on the set of the show “It’s not every day on Sunday” on the private channel RTL-TVI.
Mr. Bouchez, who is also a co-opted senator, added that he had “a personal inclination” for the Air component and had responded to a job offer opened by the Defense for a specific function as a reservist as a jurist within the Control & Reporting Center (CRC) of Beauvechain, which provides permanent surveillance of Belgian and Luxembourg airspace.
He recently signed his commitment, as several newspapers revealed last week and will, like any reservist, have to follow a two-week “military initiation phase” (PIM), including training in basic weapons handling. . He will then be a second lieutenant and will then be subject to at least one week of military obligations per year during recalls. “But obviously you can do more according to the needs and according to your capacity”, commented the president of the MR.
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The Minister of Defense, Ludivine Dedonder, also present on the set, was surprised “at this sudden interest” for Defense, while Mr. Bouchez did not show up when two Liberal ministers (Didier Reynders and Philippe Goffin , Ed) were in office.
“‘I imagine that it is the dynamic of reconstruction that I am leading that led you there”, she slipped, speaking of a “form of recognition”.
“I dare to hope that this is not simply a publicity stunt or political recovery,” added the minister.
What Mr. Bouchez denied, recalling that one of his grandfathers had been a soldier and that he had “always had an attraction for the army and for the Air Force in particular.
In the tone of the anecdote, he said he was ready to “comply with the rules, with all the rules” in particular with regard to the length of his hairstyle.
“You have to have a clearance of the ears and the neck. Or a bun. Or it’s …”, launched Ms. Dedonder, making a gesture imitating that of a hairdresser.
She pointed out that Defense had increased the number of places offered within the reserve – either generalist or specialist. The number of reservist recruitments has thus increased from 78 per year to “800 reservists who are in training”, including around a hundred students.
In Flanders, political scientist Jonathan Holslag (of the VUB) and N-VA spokesperson Joachim Pohlmann joined the reserve in 2018.
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