• Contribution to the country's reforestation effort;
  
  
• Cleaning areas from old shells and explosive devices;
  
  
• Transportation of humanitarian aid by military means;
  
  
• Blood donation;
  
  
• Availability, charge-free, of space for cultural events of societies and organisations;
  
  
• Availability of enlisted personnel for cultural productions of municipal radio/television broadcasting stations;
  
  
• Availability of museum material to interested bodies;
  
  
• Donation of withdrawn machinery to municipalities and villages;
  
  
• Availability of military buses for the transportation of students from remote mountainous villages for purposes of education, entertainment, excursions, etc;
  
  
• Availability and transportation of tent material and mobile housing to therapeutic communities and border areas.

• face problems arising from floods;
  
  
• monitor and extinguish forest fires;
  
  
• promptly rescue citizens and patients in danger;
  
  
• face problems arising from earthquakes.

May 1995

Associating the armed forces with regional communities

• Development of Army initiatives with a social character
  
  
• Support of local authorities programmes
  
  
• Co-operation with state and social bodies

• Strengthening the enlisted personnel's social conscience
  
  
• Exploiting the enlisted personnel's knowledge and expertise
  
  
• Contribution of the army to the development of the periphery, support of local societies of special geographic and social character (mountainous, sparsely populated, etc.)

Voluntary participation of the enlisted personnel, with no interference with their military training and pending obligations.

Thrace (Xanthi, Rodopi, Evros) and Aegean Sea islands (from 1.1.97)

4th Army Corps and H.M.C.I.I. (Higher Military Command of Interior and Islands)

• Feasibility of extending the programmes to other border areas.

• Rural roads, 591 kms in total, were opened, maintained, and arranged.
  
  
• Engineering machinery was made available to agencies for earthworks and football-basketball fields and bridges were built.
  
  
• Scientists from the enlisted personnel were made available to Local Authorities to carry out various studies.

• Mobile medical and dental units with doctors of various specialties were dispatched to mountainous, remote and problematic areas in order to examine the population. Since May 1995 a total of 10,097 people were examined.
  
  
• 2,000 school students from mountainous areas of Xanthi were micro-X-rayed. First aid was offered by unit infirmaries to residents of various areas; enlisted physicians were made available to social welfare institutions; water analysis on irrigation systems-rivers-sea was conducted in military laboratories.
  
  
• Helicopters were made available for the transportation of patients.

• Showing of movies on mountainous and remote villages
  
  
• Organising musical events in military clubs.
  
  
• Artistic-cultural events with enlisted artists.
  
  
• Day excursions for 2,600 school students with military buses to places of historical, archaeological, and tourist interest in Thrace.

• Availability of Candidate Reserve Officers and soldiers, who are professional physical training instructors, as coaches to sports clubs.
  
  
• Availability of military physicians and ambulances during school and club games.
  
  
• Running of schools for illiterate servicemen and for teaching of folk dances.
  
  
• Availability of enlisted teachers to teach Greek, English, and to organise seminars.
  
  
• Organisation of educational seminars to servicemen regarding occupational orientation and the use of computers.
  
  
• Availability of enlisted scientists to the Dimocretian University of Thrace to teach and organise seminars.
  
  
• Recording of the Pomak language, one of the few oral European languages, of its grammar and syntax, and publication of the Pomak-Hellenic. Dictionary as well as the Pomak-Hellenic Dialogues.

• No one in the army to be addicted to drugs.
  
  
• No cadre or enlisted to use drugs, inside or outside military installations.
  
  
• Occasional users (i.e. all those that have used drugs a few times, out of curiosity, imitation, show-off, etc.) to stop taking drugs, to be incorporated in the army, to be trained in their specialty, to complete their service, and to be re-incorporated in the society.
  
  
• Addicts to be identified as soon as possible in order to be sent to specialised hospitals for medical examination and treatment.

• lectures in all training centres and units, presented by specialist psychiatrists, with parallel use of audio-visual aids.
  
  
• Seminars, meetings, cultural and sports events at each formation.
  
  
• Competition for the brightest idea for poster drawing or development of initiatives, in the framework of the objectives set by HAGS, regarding drug fighting.
  
  
• Special questionnaires and studies preparation.

• Printing of written material and production of video-tapes that will be provided to formations and units.
  
  
• Production of commercials that will be presented in the mass media, as well as a special entry in the Internet for the publicisation of the issue.
  
  
• Organisation of two Panhellenic meetings in which state and scientific bodies will participate.
  
  
• Study for the establishment of a detoxication centre.

Moreover, on March 14-15, 1997, the Hellenic Navy executed a special operation for evacuation of Greek and foreign citizens from Albania as follows: the frigate AEGEON, the Missile Boat KAVALOUDIS, the Torpedo Boat LEALAPS and the Minesweeper KLEIO executed a fast, effective and safe operation and a great number (more than 300) of Greek citizens, citizens from other European countries, as well as from China, were taken from Dyrrachion.

• During 1996, 2,553 persons were assigned to various fire fighting missions with the necessary fire extinguishing means (water-carriers and fire tenders) of a total cost of 47,5 million Drs.
  
  
• Reforestation of burned areas and planting of 15,500 small trees on a total area of approximately 1.077 square km.
  
  
• Assignment of underwater demolition groups for ammunition disposal in 47 occasions.

• Execution of evacuation missions of 51 patients and of search-rescue operations using helicopters.
  
  
• Allocation of 3 warships for search and rescue of shipwrecked persons, as well as of eight (8) underwater demolition groups for search of missing persons.
  
  
• Provision of treatment in nine (9) cases in the depressure cell.
  
  
• Organisation of nine (9) voluntary blood donations in groups and of 102 individual ones.

• Construction and operation of nurseries at the naval ports of Salamis and Souda, Crete, serving both the military and civilian personnel of the Navy, as well as the adjacent municipalities.
  
  
• Use of the port facilities of the Navy located at Sigri, Lesvos, by the car ferries of the Lesvos shipping company for the commercial and economic development of Western Lesvos.
  
  
• Allotment to the National Tourist Organisation of a lighthouse at Kranae, Gyhteion for establishment of the Mani Naval Museum.
  
  
• Return of the security zone of the lighthouse located at Kaki Kefali, Chalkis, to the municipality of Chalkis for the creation of a recreation grove.
  
  
• Allotment of an area of 50,000 square metres from the naval port of Nea Michaniona for the installation of a biological cleaning facility which will serve the wider area of Thessaloniki.
  
  
• Acceleration of the necessary infrastructure works so that the port facilities of the Advanced Naval Base at Paleokastritsa can serve the fishing boats of the area.
  
  
• Studies preparation for the construction of port facilities at Psara and Kardamila, Chios.
  
  
• Execution of 25 water-supply projects on waterless islands.

• Acceleration of the suitable infrastructure works of the central building of the Poros Training Centre, which, following efforts of the Navy, was characterised by the Ministry of Culture as a Heritage Building in order to receive a face-lift and become a pole of attraction for the public.
  
  
• Completion of the study for the shelter of the trireme "Olympias" and acceleration of its building to be opened the public.
  
  
• Reconstructure of the lighthouse Tourlitis, at Andros, based on the patterns of the old ruined one, for safer access of ships at the port of Chora, Andros.
  
  
• Organisation of twenty-four (24) charitable activities, mainly through provision of instruction materials to schools, municipalities and organisations, and provision of 36 warships and 5 vehicles for various social activities.
  
  
• Organisation of the "Naval Week" from June 30 to July 6, with celebrations which had Komotini as their centre and covered all Greece.
  
  
• Allotment of 35 war vessels for local insular anniversaries and religious celebrations and of 195 detachments for municipal activities.
  
  
• Construction of 37 church bells, out of which 27 in churches in Albania.
  
  
• Participation in 27 football, sailing and rowing games.

• Issue of 1567 notices to navigators.
  
  
• Transmission to Spain of 100 international notices, concerning international maritime lines within the Hellenic maritime territory.
  
  
• Daily transmission of six (6) regular and several special bulletins via the official NAVTEX stations.
  
  
• Issue of three hundred and eighteen (318) notices for updating purposes of maps and naval publications.
  
  
• Completion of the 'Beacon List' project.
  
  
• Provision, gratis, of 6,856 Hellenic edition maps to in-country and abroad services.
  
  
• Co-operation with:
  
  
  - The National Technical University (NTU) of Athens/Faculty of Ship Building, concerning development of project "AMPHITRITE".
  
  - The Institute of Technological and Metallurgical Research and the Hellenic Centre of Underwater Research for the conduct of oceanographic sailing.
  
  - The Hellenic Television Network for the transmission of notices to navigators and many other organisations.
  
  
• Maintenance of twelve floating markers and tidometers operating in respective ports and installation of two more tidometers in the Ports of Rhodes and Patras.

• Installation of 20 new beacons in various areas of Greece.
  
  
• 12 modifications of beacon networks either with regard to their operation or their characteristics.
  
  
• One hundred and sixty nine beacon damage repairs all over Greece.
  
  
• The ships of the Lighthouse Service sailed for a total of 10,637 miles, which is translated to 1,538 hours (=200 days) of maritime service.

• The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), established in 1947, based in Geneva. Among its responsibilities is the planning, world-widely, of the Weather Observation Meteorological System.
  
  
• The ECMWF (a European Organisation, established in 1973). Its responsibility is the research and development of arithmetic methods for forecasts of medium time scale by using atmospheric models, and for the allocation of the results of the models in real time to the member countries.
  
  
• The EUMETSAT (a European Organisation, established in 1986). Its responsibility is the development and operational exploitation of meteorological satellite systems. Among the National Meteorological Service's tasks are the weather forecasts of any nature, specific weather forecasts for air and sea, navigation and farmers, as well as the meteorological conditions of atmospheric pollution in Athens.

- Establishment of the general outlines for the promotion of military sports.

- Promotion of research in the fields of physical activity and sports.

- Realisation of training courses, lectures, analyses of technical and athletic issues.

- Encouragement in terms of development of friendship and fellowship among the different services of the Armed Forces.

- Handling of issues concerning publicity, organisation, preparation and conduct of athletic events.

• A number of athletic events for the Higher Military Academies and the NCO Schools, as well as a number of championships for the General Staffs and the Security Forces Headquarters, are scheduled and carried out each year by the Council.
  
  
• In 1996, the Council scheduled and conducted thirty three (33) athletic events, covering nearly the whole range of Olympic sports. More specifically:
  
  
  - 8 events for the Military Academies.
  
  - 5 events for the Armed Forces NCO Schools.
  
  - 20 events for the Armed and Security Forces.
  
  
• The Armed Forces and the Security Forces National teams participated in four (4) World and two (2) Regional European Champion-ships of the CISM.
  
  
• The national teams participated in fifteen (15) sports events in the form of friendly meetings with local teams, thus aiming at the promotion of sports, mainly in border areas, as well as for social and fund-raising reasons.
  
  
• In 1997 the Council scheduled and proceeded with carrying out of thirty six (36) athletic events. More specifically:
  
  
• Eight (8) events for the Military Academies
  
  
• Six (6) for the Armed Forces NCO Schools
  
  
• Twenty two (22) for the Armed and the Security Forces.
  
  
• In an effort to promote and attract people in the mass athleticism in the periphery of the country, the Council organised athletic events for new athletes in the areas hosting its championships.
  
  
• The Armed Forces and Security Forces teams participated in seventeen (17) athletic events for fund-raising and social purposes.
  
  
• Armed and Security Forces national teams participated in the CISM International Championships of Football, Field Race, Tae Kwon Do, Judo, Wrestling and in the European Weight Lifting Championship. These participations were great successes, giving our country a worldwide glamour.
  
  
• Our national team conquered the first place in the CISM Football World Championship, held in Tehran (July 21 to August 7).