Administrative

The administrative area is work with people and documents. It has three large parts.

HQ and records management: office work, collecting and processing data, preparing documents, military interpreting from English and Spanish. This requires attentiveness and the ability to handle large volumes of information without losing accuracy.

Psychological support: officer psychologists, the psychological support group, deputy commanders for morale and psychological support. These people work with what gear cannot fix — a soldier's state of mind and the return after hard missions. A relevant degree is required, army experience is not.

Recruiting and work with people: the recruiter who guides a candidate from the first conversation to signing the contract, the contact centre operator who takes the first enquiry, and the officer responsible for work with combatants (UBD).

What they all have in common is that these are positions where civilian experience carries over almost without loss. An HR specialist stays an HR specialist, a psychologist stays a psychologist.

The unmanned systems HQ deserves a separate mention. Formally it is administrative work — planning, compiling data, documents. But the area is drones, and the person there has to understand how drones work, even if they do not fly them. That is why these positions are also filled by people who come from IT or engineering.

The work is done in the rear, on a regular schedule as far as that is possible in the army. Everyone completes basic military training, whatever the position.