"I think 80 percent of the countries in Europe have a professional army, " said Oliver Bendt, 42.
However the talks go, Mr Pastrana must continue his efforts to create a stronger and more professional army.
The mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party, which has governed Turkey since 2002, plans to deploy a new professional army along the border with Iraq, where the PKK has havens.
The centre-left Social Democrats say the current make-up of the armed forces does not work for the 21st Century, arguing that a professional army is needed to work more effectively with other European armies.
In September 2010, the UN Security Council lifted the last remaining sanctions against Sierra Leone, saying the government had fully re-established control over its territory, and former rebel fighters had been disarmed and demobilised under the auspices of a professional national army.
My own experience as a healthcare professional both in the Army and private sector convinces me that we are doing well in many cases, and, that there is tremendous room for continued improvement.
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The ceremony at the Cenotaph was attended by the Chief of the Defence Staff, Gen Sir David Richards, and the professional head of the Army, Gen Sir Peter Wall, along with servicemen and women.
Army began playing professional baseball teams in 1914, losing 7-2 to the New York Giants.
Fiji's army is a professional one, with a good reputation for peacekeeping in troublespots around the world.
While many professional soldiers feel that an Army with the five brigades, the force established under the Coalition government's Strategic Defence and Security Review (the SDSR), has sunk below a critical level, I would argue that they have probably got off the lightest of the three services.
But as a professional soldier, and the son of a professional soldier, he knew the army.
He was a professional soldier, having joined the army at 17, gradually rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, partly through luck, partly because of his mastery of army bureaucracy.
Expect more union trouble after the unveiling, on July 7th, of the second stage of a five-year plan, also inherited from the right, to turn France's army into a volunteer, professional force, cutting numbers by a third within four years.
For starters, eliminating anything from the Code has become an exercise in futility in light of the army of special interest groups and professional lobbyists who fight on behalf of even the most narrow, industry-specific provisions contained in the law.
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They will become professional soldiers, and they will go where the army orders them, just as my army has sent me here to Afghanistan.
This is no different than what traditional newsrooms do but now, instead of a handful of professional reporters filing stories, Digg has a citizen army of thousands looking for headlines.
Mark Easton said it was part of the government's plan to abolish professional Whitehall scrutineers like the Audit Commission and replace them with an "army of armchair auditors".
Mr Ingram said the Army would now examine the report's findings to see if any action should be taken for "professional misconduct or negligence".
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