A.F.M. selection process for enrollment in Emergency Volunteer Reserve Force

Following the overwhelming response for enrolment in the Emergency Volunteer Reserve Force (EVRF), the tough selection process will get underway on Saturday, 25th April, 1998, at 10.00 a.m., at Luqa Barracks.

Only 60, out of 240 men and women, will make it to the top to be finally enlisted with the EVRF. The men and women who have filed an application to join the EVRF will now start going through the first paces of the selection process. The applicants, ranging from academics to labourers, must first go through an Army Physical Efficiency Test. They will be allotted a number of points according to their age groups. Naturally, only the fittest will survive and move on to the next step.

Successful applicants will then be submitted to a thorough Medical Examination to ascertain that they are fully fit for military duties. After being medically cleared, the applicants must then prove themselves to be suitable for military training during an interview to be held by the EVRF Selection Board. Various aspects of the individual will be assessed during these interviews, such as personality, motivation, leadership qualities, educational standard, skill in certain trades, etc.

Applying such a rigorous selection process is necessary to pick out the sixty persons assessed to be most suitable to form the first intake into the EVRF, whose motto has been declared to be - Only The Best.