Military Academies Adapt to Zoomers

National military training centers have made efforts to adjust their curriculum to the new wave of cadets coming from Generation Z, who have a very different way of thinking than their predecessors born in the 1980s.

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Air Force Academy (AAU) cadets participated in a computer-based learning about helicopter engine components, Tuesday (28/9/2021), at the AAU complex, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The three academies of the National Military (TNI) – Army Military Academy, Naval Academy, Air Force Academy – have been grooming cadets from Generation Z, colloquially known as Zoomers, in recent years.

This has required the academies to accordingly take into account the characteristics of Generation Z, who are said to be different from the cadets born in the 1980s and 1990s. Zoomers are typically critical and digitally literate.