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Breast Badge of the IMEC. Franco period, 1973-1975.
The university militias were an optional form of fulfilling mandatory military service in Spain for university students or graduates, where they could obtain the ranks of non-commissioned officer or officer. In this scheme, candidates received military training in the Complementary Scale until mandatory military service was abolished. They were created by a Decree from the Head of State on February 22, 1941, which instituted compulsory military service. As part of recruitment, the University Militia was formed (with “provisional” officers and non-commissioned officers).
Its designation was “Superior Pre-military Instruction” (IPS). Starting in 1973, it was renamed “Military Instruction of the Complementary Scale” (IMEC), which remained in place until the Military Function Law 17/1989, when it transformed into the SEFOCUMA (Service Training Command Staff), with similar characteristics, until the abolition of mandatory military service under Royal Decree 247/2001, of March 9.
