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Germany offers to fill Polish submariner training gap

30th October 2018 - 11:43 GMT | by Michal Jarocki in Gdynia

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In the face of an inevitable reduction of its submarine fleet, the Polish Navy is looking for new ways to maintain a minimal level of trained and experienced personnel by the time new vessels are brought into service under the Orka programme.

As a temporary solution, the German Navy is opening the premises of its training centre to Polish students.

According to CDR Manfred Grabienski, head of the Submarine Training Centre in Eckernförde, currently one Polish submariner is going through a 12 month chief engineering officer course in Germany.

As a result of the training the submariner will be qualified

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Michal Jarocki is a Shephard correspondent based in Warsaw, Poland. He is reporting on military …

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