The Ministry of National Defense (MND) yesterday said this year’s national defense education summer camp would include drone handling and the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear training to expose young people to simulated combat scenarios.
The camp would be separated into four tracks: standard, national defense sciences, science immersion, and medicine and battlefield first aid, the ministry said.
The standard program began taking admissions yesterday at 6pm and would accept applications until June 15.
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Applicants should submit their applications at the MND’s Political Warfare Bureau Web site. All applications received after spaces fill up would go on a waiting list.
Application results would be announced at noon on June 16, the ministry said.
Students would get to train using MILES gear, used by the US and other militaries for combat training using lasers and blank cartridges to create realistic training scenarios, as well as learning drone piloting, the ministry said.
Applications for the national defense sciences camp are handled by the National Defense University, with 40 slots available and 20 on the waiting list.
Applicants must be 15 or older and should be a high-school or vocational high-school student, the MND said.
People born before Jan. 1, 1995, are ineligible, it added.
Science Immersion Camp applicants are evaluated by the Chung Cheng Armed Forces Preparatory School and are available to middle-school students.
Recruitment for the battlefield first aid camp is run by the National Defense Medical University, with eligibility for at high-school-aged students or older, accepting 120 applicants.
The ministry said it welcomes social welfare departments and local government bureaus, as well as schools and social welfare organizations, to recommend students from mid to low-income families to apply to the program.
The ministry has reserved 5 percent of all slots for disadvantaged children who do not fall under the originally slated 1,310-member cap, adding that all expenses for those applicants would be borne by the ministry.
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