On Thursday 03 July 2025, the oath-taking ceremony of new Career Sergeants Class of 2025 “COLONEL (INF) KONSTANTINOS KOKKAS” was held at the Career NCO Academy in Trikala, at the presence of Army Inspector General – Deputy Chief of Hellenic Army General Staff Lieutenant General Andreas Koronakis, who represented Chief of Hellenic National Defence General Staff General Dimitrios Choupis, and Chief of Hellenic Army General Staff Lieutenant General Georgios Kostidis.

The ceremony was attended by the MP for Trikala Ms Aikaterini Papakosta – Palioura, His Eminence the Metropolitan of Trikki, Gardiki, and Pyli Chrysostomos, the Commanding General of 1st Army/EU-ΟHQ “ACHILLEAS” Lieutenant General Stavros Papastathopoulos, representatives of the Chiefs of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff, the Hellenic Navy General Staff, the National Guard General Staff, representatives of local government, active duty and retired Officers of the Armed Forces and the Security Forces, academic authorities, as well as relatives of the new Sergeants and the hero of Class of 2025 “COLONEL (INF) KONSTANTINOS KOKKAS” and other guests.

245 Career Sergeants graduated from the School, 204 from Greece and 41 from Cyprus.

You can read the Curriculum Vitae of the Class Hero here.

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