This study made an attempt to examine the 2020 National Defence Reform Project and the 2015 National Military Physical Education Vision in a bid to discuss what policies were pushed ahead to bolster the combat capabilities of the armed forces and spor...
This study made an attempt to examine the 2020 National Defence Reform Project and the 2015 National Military Physical Education Vision in a bid to discuss what policies were pushed ahead to bolster the combat capabilities of the armed forces and sports for all among members of the armed forces, to help improve the barrack lives of military men and their quality of life, and to step up the development of military physical education.
The purpose of this study was ultimately to delve into policy setting about the improvement of military physical education. The selected research tasks were to analyze major policies related to military physical education, to analyze foreign military physical education, and to explore what measures should be taken in terms of human resources development, facility improvement and program development to boost military physical education.
After relevant literature was reviewed to resolve the research tasks, the following findings were given:
1. In order to expedite the development of required human resources, the Ministry of National Defense should strengthen relevant departments and organizations that are responsible for P.E. policies, and appoint P.E. experts to responsible posts. Korea Armed Forces Athletic Corps should be more empowered to provide education and develop military P.E. programs, which were their unique missions. The elite P.E. sector should remain intact, and the drillmaster team that had been abolished should be recreated. Company officers and non-commissioned officers who offer physical education to military men should be trained to become qualified P.E. instructors. The Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development, the Ministry of Culture & Tourism and the Defense Ministry should join forces in linking school physical education, military physical education and sports for all by training military men graduating from colleges of physical education to work in P.E.-related divisions.
2. Military units weren't well furnished with P.E. facilities or equip- ment. Although the importance of physical fitness training is accentuated as part of daily educational and training programs, P.E. facilities were insufficient and outdated, and more advanced facilities and equipment should be secured. The U.S. Army is so well equipped that not only soldiers but their families enjoy a wide variety of welfare, morale- boosting and recreation programs provided by MWR to improve their physical fitness. Likewise, Korean military P.E. facilities should be expanded and modernized, and the introduction of scientific sport facilities is especially required to boost sport prescription and fighting efficiency. Besides, military P.E. facilities should function as sport for all facilities by being open to local residents in order to step up interchange with them.
3. Nurturing specialized military personnels and securing modernized facilities are expected to help military men to build up their physical strength and lead a better quality of life. A variety of systematic programs should be provided for them to master a sport during the period of service, and that will contribute to enlarging the population of who enjoys sports for all. Experts who can be educated to develop diverse physical training programs and different sorts of P.E. programs tailored to each unit's characteristics should be selected, educated and assigned to the right posts, and they should receive further education on a regular basis to keep improving themselves.