01.09.2011.
Marking the Personnel Service Day
Members of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces dealing with personnel affairs and human resources management have marked today their holiday – the Personnel Service Day. On that occasion, in the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff, there was organized a ceremony attended by Lieutenant General Peter Radojcic, Director of the Inspectorate of the Ministry of Defence, Brigadier General Sladjan Djordjevic, Head of Personnel Department, Brigadier General Milan Mojsilovic, Deputy Commander of Joint Operations Command, Major General Dragan Kolundzija, Chief of Operations, Brigadier General Jovica Draganic, Chief of Training and Doctrine Command, Colonel Milos Miletic, Head of Finance Division, Colonel Zvonimir Pesic, Head of the Civil-Military Cooperation Division, His Eminence Bishop Porfirije of Jegar and other guests.
The ceremony was organized by the Human Resources Department of the General Staff. Addressing the gathering, Chief of this department, Brigadier General Dobrivoje Veljkovic reminded of the importance of personnel function in the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces. "Without the professional personnel service, the operation of military systems is unthinkable," pointed out General Veljkovic. He then reviewed the most important activities of the personnel service: "Professionalization of the Serbian Armed Forces has been completed, which was the task of the national interest, conscription in a traditional way has been suspended, the Doctrine of Human Resource Management has been adopted defining this area in a modern way, Code of Honour of the members of the Serbian Armed Forces defined the general moral principles of the military profession, its core values and behavioural norms of the members of the Armed Forces", Veljkovic said.
According to him, the work on establishing the chaplains service in the Serbian Armed Forces is continued by adopting the Regulation on the performance of the chaplains service in the SAF and signing of an agreement with the Serbian Orthodox Church, the work on the introduction of a single model of psychological selection of staff in the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces began, status issues of the members of the Serbian Armed Forces have been resolved, after many years military commemorative medals were awarded and the work has been continued on improving the visual identity of the Serbian Armed Forces. "In the middle of all there was and still is the man", General Veljkovic said.
Brigadier General Sladjan Djordjevic, Head of the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence congratulated Members of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces the Personnel Service Day – 1 September.
It has been for the third time that the members of the Personnel Department mark the 1 September as the day of their service. This date was chosen because the 1 September is the day when the "personnel year" begins. In fact, the most important jobs performed by personnel authorities are implemented and summarized by this date.
