Here I learned the meaning of responsibility, respect for service and the importance of fraternity," said 1 of the graduates of the Ełk Uniform Education Center at the appeal. The end of the year in advanced school coincided with the 10th anniversary. Many guests arrived: soldiers, firefighters, railwaymen, paramedics, dog trainers. Although they wear different uniforms, they have 1 thing in common: they have all completed the CEM.
Ełk advanced School has been a renowned school for years, which prepares staff for various uniformed services. “On the occasion of our 10th anniversary, we were accompanied by alumni from all yearbooks, who chose different types of service at the end of education,” says Agnieszka Pasko, manager of the Major Władysław Raginis Secondary School of Uniform Education in Ełk.
They came back with thanks.
One of the first CEM graduates was Braian Volyniec. – 10 years ago I was a young man with dreams and questions about the future. It is in the walls of this school that I learned what responsibility, respect for uniform and service means, and how crucial brotherhood, discipline and perseverance are," said the general. Specialist Volyniec during the graduation ceremony at the Center for Uniform Education and the 10th anniversary of the school. The soldier thanked the educators and instructors for showing the cadets that the uniform was a commitment, dignity and pride. – CEM is not only a school, but besides a forge of characters. I am arrogant to be 1 of her first graduates," he added. For six years, Braian Volyniec has served as a general specialist in the 16th Bomb Squad. – In CEM I learned drills, strategies, tactics, survival. These skills are inactive useful to me present – he admitted to the “Army Poland”.
Hit the bell!
According to tradition at the end of the school year, all cadet who completes his education at the Centre, says goodbye to the school, hitting the bell 4 times – after 1 stroke for each year of study. That's erstwhile you graduate. It is simply a peculiar bell – made of artillery shells, suspended on a naval node and mounted on a tripod. – It was the thought of our cadets – manager Pasko betrays.
During the Jubilee celebration, the best students received the distinctions, and the school principal's award was awarded a cadet that did not accomplish outstanding results, but made the top progress. He got a busola that indicates he's going in the right direction. Another component of the celebration was the dedication by each of the graduates of the alleged namesake, i.e. patches with a uniform with a name. In return, everyone was given earrings with the school logo for civilian clothes. Teachers received acts of a further degree of professional promotion.
It started in Afghanistan.
The thought to set up a school that will prepare staff for various uniformed services was born in 2011 on missions in Afghanistan, where a lieutenant. Agnieszka Pasko served as a caregiver for over a year. “We sat in a shelter and discussed what each of us would do erstwhile we returned to the country. I thought it would be worth utilizing the cognition of veterans to educate our successors and experiences to share with young people," Pasko recalls.
The preparations lasted for respective months before the CEM accepted the first 30 students in 2015. They began learning in 2 classes. present 300 cadets are taught at school, and each year about a 100 graduates leave her walls.
Cadets in the program have general education subjects specified as abroad languages, past and mathematics, and additionally classes according to the military education program, which was extended from 200 to 800 hours. The lessons are taught by veterans of abroad missions, instructors of active service of the Polish Army, and physical education and martial arts are taught by MMA masters. In addition, there is simply a learning of horse riding and weapon usage (the school has 2 laser shooting ranges and 1 pneumatic).
– Also, general subjects are useful in the military – says Mateusz Pawłowski, who teaches mathematics at the Centre. During the class, it shows how crucial this field of cognition is in the army, including erstwhile conducting artillery or tracking drones, they must besides know it well. Mateusz Pawłowski teaches mathematics during the week, and weekends are frequently spent in the 44th Light Infantry Battalion in Elk. It happened that he met with his students, who are besides WOT soldiers, in 1 company, which in the autumn of 2024 helped residents of the Śląski organization after the flood.
Center on the podium
For 10 years, the Centre besides developed its cooperation with the military, police and another uniformed services, including the 15th Giżycka Mechanized Brigade, the 4th Warmia-Masurian WOT Brigade, and the Military Recruitment Centre in Ełk. It is so no wonder that among another schools in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship it was the graduates of the CEM in 2024 who were the most able of the army. Nationally, the school won 3rd place in this category. “We are arrogant that our graduates service in all kinds of troops,” stressed manager Pasko.
Recently, a letter came to the Center from 1 of the graduates. She thanked for her first medical class due to the fact that they helped her save her heart condition. “These moments make us especially arrogant of our pupils,” admits Agnieszka Pasko.
