Training and advanced training for military technical and other military professions is performed in specialized organizations under Ministry for Defense free-of-charge in accordance with the necessity of military force or on a fee basis with full or partial reimbursement of training costs.
In case of partial reimbursement of training expenses at the expense of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan (hereinafter - the Ministry of Defense), training fires and fuel and lubricants.
On a non-reimbursable basis, citizens who are fit for military service, aged from seventeen years of six months to twenty-six years, who are recruited for military service upon completion of training or who are enlisted in the mobilization reserve, are recruited for training in military technical and other specialties. The order for the training of junior specialists is formed by the Ministry of Defense
The following citizens are involved for the preparation for the military technical and other professions on a reimbursable basis:
- physically qualified citizens liable for military service for the service under contract;
- conscripts from the age of twenty-four to twenty-seven years, fit or limited for health reasons for military service, including those who are deferred from drafting for military service.
The procedure for recruitment of conscripts, persons liable for military service, their direction and training on gratuitous and compensatory basis, the organization of the educational process, as well as the terms of training in military technical and other specialties in the specialized organizations of the Ministry of Defense are determined by the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The number of trained conscripts who are liable for military technical and other specialties in specialized organizations of the Ministry of Defense is determined by the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the basis of the need for mobilization resources or junior specialists.
The beginning and the end of the training of conscripts who are liable for military technical and other specialties is the date of issuing the orders of the head of the specialized organization of the Ministry of Defense about enrollment and termination.
Citizens who are trained in specialized organizations of the Ministry of Defense do not acquire the status of a soldier during training.
For the duration of classes in specialized organizations of the Ministry of Defense, employers are required to provide employees who are trained in these organizations, educational leave.
For conscripts who are liable for military service while studying for military technical and other specialties, the place of work (position) is preserved. During this period they cannot be dismissed on the initiative of the employer, except for cases of liquidation of a legal entity, and also expelled from the education organization on the initiative of the head of the education organization.