Opinion of Rogério COPETO: “BE A GNR”.
O "Grupo Novo Rock" (GNR), even without Rui Reininho, They launched in the year 1981 a song called "See um GNR", with the next letter: "Tens 18 years and the 4th Class / You're an ambitious young / Come be a GNR / Looking for adventure and excitement / A uniform and a cap / Come be a GNR / GNR, I want to be / GNR, I want to be, GNR / Come be a fat GNR".
Rogério COPETO
Lieutenant Colonel of the GNR, Master in Law and Security and Homeland Security Auditor
Head of the Education Division / Command Doctrine and Training
The appeal of "GNR" passed 34 years was answered, this year, by 13 628 Portuguese citizens (men and women), in which 1981 They were not yet born and possibly never heard the song "Be one GNR".
Last day 8 August, these 13 628 candidates, They were summoned 12 247, for realization of the "Knowledge Test", in order to fill 450 vacancies, for frequency of "Guards Training Course 2015/2016" in Portalegre Training Centre of GNR and whose results were announced last week, taking 4 402 granted a grade higher than 9,5 values.
Of 4 402 candidates on "Knowledge Test" were now summoned 1 223, to carry out the "Physical Evidence", which began last day 24 August, and those who manage to overcome all the physical evidence obstacles, They will still be subject to "Psychological Assessment" and "medical examinations".
The 1 223 candidates still in contest are all Portuguese citizens and over 18 years and today everyone has to have at least the 11th grade or equivalent, in addition to other requirements, an access "Recruitment Portal"GNR can clarify.
All agree that the image that a GNR had in 1981 among the Portuguese population is very different from what is today, and it is not surprising that the music of "GNR" ends with "Come be a fat GNR", that could well be "Come be a mustachioed fat GNR", which we did not consider pejorative, or indicative that the GNR decade 80, It was better or worse professional, by Dessa be caricaturado form, because as today, GNR has always had in his excellent professional staff, regardless of their physical appearance.
But certainly the author of the lyrics "Be one GNR" if he had to write today, no longer end in the same way, although there are still the staff of the military GNR with weight above the ideal, for their height, because today, and past 30 years after the release of that song, the image that people have of the Portuguese GNR is very different, that it had in the early 80.
Not only the image that the population has changed the GNR, but also changed the way the "GNR" now led by Rui Reininho today look for GNR, and proof of this is the excellent concert that had the privilege of giving with the Symphonic Band of GNR, in 2013, at the Atlantic Pavilion (Watch Concerto and find out whether or not played the song "Be one GNR").
Today men and women of the National Guard are presented, either in Portugal, and abroad, the various national and international missions, who have played effectively and efficiently, here and in all corners of the world, with high professionalism, thus contributing to the excellent image that the GNR keep in Portugal and abroad, It is recognized as an institution Modern, human, next and reliable.
For this, have greatly contributed to high levels of demand, Have candidates to the Guards Training Courses are faced, taking the evidence mentioned above a key role in the selection of future Guards GNR.
To 450 candidates who can overcome all the evidence, awaits them a "Training Course Guards" (CFG) exigente qb (It is not for supermen), the academic aspects, military, physical and psychological, which all trainees will remember, as the best times of his career in GNR.
Is true, During the course, All students wishing to end soon, but on the day following the "Rules of Engagement" (Military ceremony terminating the CFG and where all the Provisional Guards swear to defend the homeland, even with the sacrifice of their lives), remember with nostalgia the moments that have passed, especially the most difficult and which have successfully overcome.
They will also remember all your comrades, such as it, They managed to finish the course with a spirit of sacrifice, We are going to consider them as "brothers". The bonds created during the CFG, although they are not "blood", They can have the same or more strength, by calling it "Camaraderie", value that the company refers to as "spirit of solidarity" and we know very well military, and this "camaraderie" that helps us to fulfill all missions, for which the call is GNR, either in the country, and abroad.
During the CFG for the addition of "camaraderie" graduates will meet other values, already out of favor in civil society and that only the military still reveal, such as discipline, abnegation, the courage, loyalty, the sense of responsibility, the spirit of sacrifice, the availability and mission spirit.
Be a GNR is not having a same profession other, I do not want to say that this is better or worse, It is surely different, because we are subject to all the rules that every citizen is, besides those governing the internal, such as our status, our code of ethics and our discipline regulation, that require us to observe a set of duties and rights that limit us.
The GNR has therefore to offer, all 450 young Portuguese citizens and over 18 year old, who can enter the institution, beyond "adventure and excitement, one uniform and a cap" (Now a beret), as the lyrics "Be one GNR" refers, sure can play, within their various missions and valences, any of the many functions, such as, military, police, professor, firefighter, life guard, knight, researcher, forensic technician, driver, sailor, fiscal, assistente social, instructor, handler, coach, athlete, musician, computer, photographer, etc.
New ones 450 GNR military also get to know, which now belong to a security force that has its responsibility 94% the national territory, which ensures security for persons and property, durante as 24 horas do dia, 365 days per year, come rain or shine, on days, hours and conditions under which the ordinary citizen is collected in the Hearth, with the sole reward recognition of the population it serves and the consciousness that develops an essential profession in a democratic rule of law, where unsafe, there can be no freedom, the first rights, It is assumed this responsibility every day by the military of the GNR.
