Wednesday, December 27, 2006

PROMOZZJONIJEIT FIL-FAM

Ghada, il-Hamis 28 ta' Dicembru 2006, se jithabbru l-promozzjonijiet fil-Forzi Armati ta' Malta wara stennija ta' hames snin.

Rapport fil-harga ta' l-orizzont ta' ghada l-Hamis.

3 Comments:

At December 29, 2006 at 11:12 AM , Blogger Joe Sammut said...

It was high time that the AFM promotions came out: a near 6 years in the waiting. The jokes floated around were that where Father Christams got stuck down the chimney with the bagful of promotions, it was the Befana that brought them over ahead of her time for the Istrina!

One now augurs two things: firstly, that some 6 months or so down the line, with the exodus of retiring AFM old timers, the vacancies created will be just as speedily filled in with more deserved promotions, and secondly, that these AFM promotion debacles are left for the AFM themselves to handle and move along, and not anymore a political/civil service high level decision/filtering process.

The Maltese military must be allowed to move on with life, its progress and adapt to today's circumstances, not anchor itself (obligingly so by the adminsitartion in power at the time in government) to old long-surpassed practices.

Happy new year boys and girls: you ALL deserved the new stripes/badges of rank!

 
At December 29, 2006 at 11:23 AM , Blogger Christopher Park said...

Greetings from the UK John and John: forgive my writing in English as well, but its my mother tongue, and wife helps with the Malti's reading.

Firstly, congrats on this new effort John - it's sure to create some stirs in the right circles, uncensored by editors or other folks' agendas!

Secondly, best wishes for the new year in 2007. Here's hoping soldiers worldwide will get a better deal for the work they toil.

Lastly, to conclude on Joe's take on the AFM's promotions, yes - spot on, the AFM top brass need to promote more men down the line when the veterans retire on age 55. It helps keep the Force fluid with new blood in the ranks and amongst the supervisory grades.

Apart from the AFM badly needing to handle its own promotions' processes, the administartion needs to create a Defence Committee of sorts at ministerial level or higher (even outside the government), like the U.S. Senate Committe on Defense, to review Maltese defense matters, etc.

I understand there was one once at OPM , before we moved back to Milton Keynes here, but it fizzled into nothing or limbo. Maybe with the new Defense Director sheila running the show, they could reactivate it.

Ball in their court now John, 'viva le blog', what!!

 
At December 30, 2006 at 7:31 PM , Blogger kimi said...

proset john tax xoghol li taghmel int hu min hu bhalek hu il festi tajba lil kullhadd

 

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