Serviço militar prestado em tiro-de-guerra e escola de instrução militar : uma avaliação do treinamento, sob o ponto de vista do soldado

Abstract

This work has aimed at studying soldiers' perceptions within seventy Five military units of São Paulo State, concerning the training conditions they were submitted when serving the initial military service. This study has been an exploratory field research within qualitative and quantitative approaches. Four thousand, nine hundred and sixty three questionnaires have been filled in by all Tiros-de-Guerra (TG) and Escola de Instrução Militar (EsIM) of São Paulo State. Such questionnaires had sixty questions which allowed the characterization of existing factors in the military training of initial military training of initial military service and soldiers' perceptions regarding these factors. The studied matter was to know whether there were differences in the perception of such factors from the point of view of TG and EsIM soldiers. The obtained results have shown that there has been a perception difference. The present research has shown a picture of soldiers' perceptions on the given training. The obtained results suggest the continuation of data analyses, mainly by the Military Service responsible institutions. Such results also suggest the research application within other kinds of military service and its permanent institutionalization.