July 15 and Akıncı Airbase (13): How to be a staff officer through fraud

Becoming a staff officer who opens the door to the path leading to become a general in the Turkish Armed Forces is possible by passing a tough exam. 

The multiple choice and written answers asked in this exam cover a wide-range of topics from history to economics, from foreign policy to energy issues alongside military-related subjects. 

The staff officer's exam can be taken after completing the third year of being in the first lieutenant position. An officer can take this exam up to six times, including the period after becoming a captain.

Preparing for the exam requires a challenging effort. The young officers trying to be staff officers on the one hand serve in the field units, for example fly as part of the squadron if they are pilots, and on the other hand prepare for the tests of the academy. Those who pass the exam, receive a two-year education at the Air College within the body of the War Colleges Command in Istanbul. In previous practices, if some 200-250 officers joined the air forces every year in one term, depending on the need and, with an emphasis on the category of pilots, just 35 to 40 officers were chosen in the staff officer's exam. 

Yes, the exam was difficult in the past, but if you were a Gülenist officer, then you did not have to tire yourself a lot for the staff officer's exam. Fethullah Gülen's spiritual personality would bring you the practical solution to make you pass the staff officer's exam easily. How?

It is best to listen to the answer of this question from the testimony of the Air Pilot Staff First Lieutenant Müslim Macit, who took an active role in the July 15, 2016, coup attempt:

"We took the academy exams. Here we met with Mehmet Ayan with the code name 'Mahmut.' Along with an ...

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